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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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Pagina 48
... called Gallo - Italian , the name itself indicating one of the reasons for its peculiarities , that is , the Gallic ( Keltic ) lin- guistic substratum of the region which the Romans called Gallia Cisalpina . The entire area can be ...
... called Gallo - Italian , the name itself indicating one of the reasons for its peculiarities , that is , the Gallic ( Keltic ) lin- guistic substratum of the region which the Romans called Gallia Cisalpina . The entire area can be ...
Pagina 86
... called Umbria , or to one of Augustus ' eleven regions , or to the district from which come the inscriptions in the so - called Umbrian dialect ; whether he believes that the name Umbrians should desig- nate speakers of Umbrian , or ...
... called Umbria , or to one of Augustus ' eleven regions , or to the district from which come the inscriptions in the so - called Umbrian dialect ; whether he believes that the name Umbrians should desig- nate speakers of Umbrian , or ...
Pagina 218
... called Allemand by the French . Latin and Latinian are called by the same name as the tribes who spoke these dialects and whom we meet as Latini in Latium . About their predecessors we know nothing . " The small Sabellian tribes are ...
... called Allemand by the French . Latin and Latinian are called by the same name as the tribes who spoke these dialects and whom we meet as Latini in Latium . About their predecessors we know nothing . " The small Sabellian tribes are ...
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