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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... spoken in regions along the Franco - Italian frontier from Ventimiglia northward toward Turin , and in the numerous valleys descending toward the Po River . A Franco - Provençal speech island exists also in the local- ities of Faeto and ...
... spoken in regions along the Franco - Italian frontier from Ventimiglia northward toward Turin , and in the numerous valleys descending toward the Po River . A Franco - Provençal speech island exists also in the local- ities of Faeto and ...
Pagina 217
... spoken on either side of the spinal ridge of the Apennines in their southern half , in Campania , and in Calabria . Concerning the Latinian dialects we are equally sure that they are Indo - European , that they were spoken in Latium and ...
... spoken on either side of the spinal ridge of the Apennines in their southern half , in Campania , and in Calabria . Concerning the Latinian dialects we are equally sure that they are Indo - European , that they were spoken in Latium and ...
Pagina 319
... SPOKEN LATIN WRITTEN LATI Mediaeval WRITTEN ROMANIC Proto - Romanic Romanic Vernaculars Fig . 2 mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the larger scale permits a detail which could ...
... SPOKEN LATIN WRITTEN LATI Mediaeval WRITTEN ROMANIC Proto - Romanic Romanic Vernaculars Fig . 2 mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the larger scale permits a detail which could ...
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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