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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... according to the inscrip- tions appears to have been of Venetic speech , as existing from the Iron Age down to its peaceful conquest by the Romans in 184 B.C. It was spared both Etruscan and Keltic domination to which so many other ...
... according to the inscrip- tions appears to have been of Venetic speech , as existing from the Iron Age down to its peaceful conquest by the Romans in 184 B.C. It was spared both Etruscan and Keltic domination to which so many other ...
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... According to some scholars this unity dis- solved in the fifth or sixth century of our era , according to others not before the end of the eighth or ninth centuries . Second , there are theories which insist on early dialectalization of ...
... According to some scholars this unity dis- solved in the fifth or sixth century of our era , according to others not before the end of the eighth or ninth centuries . Second , there are theories which insist on early dialectalization of ...
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... according to a model behavior , than how to speak properly , that is , correctly according to a standardized model speech and without a foreign accent . The pressure to do one or the other thing ' properly ' will vary according to the ...
... according to a model behavior , than how to speak properly , that is , correctly according to a standardized model speech and without a foreign accent . The pressure to do one or the other thing ' properly ' will vary according to the ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words written