The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryThrough the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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South of Tuscany and Umbria extends Latium . ( It should be noted that the modern Latium , or Lazio , occupies really double the area of what the Romans called Latium , which corresponds mainly to the modern Roman Campagna south of Rome ...
South of Tuscany and Umbria extends Latium . ( It should be noted that the modern Latium , or Lazio , occupies really double the area of what the Romans called Latium , which corresponds mainly to the modern Roman Campagna south of Rome ...
Pagina 159
of being misunderstood , of Proto - Latins , whereby they mean a hypothetical group of persons who were the first to speak the ( un- attested ) dialect or dialects of Latium which we later discern in Old Latin and , in part ...
of being misunderstood , of Proto - Latins , whereby they mean a hypothetical group of persons who were the first to speak the ( un- attested ) dialect or dialects of Latium which we later discern in Old Latin and , in part ...
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We find , then , in Latium and southern Etruria an Iron Age culture which , according to its appearance , may be clasified as Villanovan , or rather a mixture of what is commonly called North- ern and Southern Villanovan .
We find , then , in Latium and southern Etruria an Iron Age culture which , according to its appearance , may be clasified as Villanovan , or rather a mixture of what is commonly called North- ern and Southern Villanovan .
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