The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Romans ] was no longer self - defense , the reclusion within their own borders , but aimed toward an ever more intimate union with the organism of the Roman state , then also the fate of the diffusion of Latin was decided in a favorable ...
... Romans ] was no longer self - defense , the reclusion within their own borders , but aimed toward an ever more intimate union with the organism of the Roman state , then also the fate of the diffusion of Latin was decided in a favorable ...
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... Roman answers assayed . One must indeed say that the Romans on the whole treated their subject peoples , once the ... Roman state and only coincidentally that of the allies . The Romanization , nationally and linguistically , progressed ...
... Roman answers assayed . One must indeed say that the Romans on the whole treated their subject peoples , once the ... Roman state and only coincidentally that of the allies . The Romanization , nationally and linguistically , progressed ...
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... Roman citizens with the same rights and duties as the inhabitants of Rome . If one disregards Ostia , which may have become a ' colony , ' in a looser sense of the word , at the time of the king Ancus Martius , the oldest Roman colony ...
... Roman citizens with the same rights and duties as the inhabitants of Rome . If one disregards Ostia , which may have become a ' colony , ' in a looser sense of the word , at the time of the king Ancus Martius , the oldest Roman colony ...
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