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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 184
... Etruscan culture a fusion of native Apennine elements which he calls Tyrrhenian , with Etruscan culture proper , from the Villa- novan period on . " To him the Tyrrhenians are , like the Picenes , pre - Indo - European inhabitants of ...
... Etruscan culture a fusion of native Apennine elements which he calls Tyrrhenian , with Etruscan culture proper , from the Villa- novan period on . " To him the Tyrrhenians are , like the Picenes , pre - Indo - European inhabitants of ...
Pagina 196
... Etruscans ' outside of Italy.5 The presence in the Etruscan alpha- bet of the letter 8 for [ f ] which otherwise occurs only in Lydia , has by the way been an argument for the Anatolian extraction of the Etruscan language and even of ...
... Etruscans ' outside of Italy.5 The presence in the Etruscan alpha- bet of the letter 8 for [ f ] which otherwise occurs only in Lydia , has by the way been an argument for the Anatolian extraction of the Etruscan language and even of ...
Pagina 341
... Etruscan population had learned Etruscan and actually spoke it . The area of what is now called Tuscan Italian coincides sur- prisingly well with the country of the Etruscans , apart from their Campanian and Patavinian possessions ...
... Etruscan population had learned Etruscan and actually spoke it . The area of what is now called Tuscan Italian coincides sur- prisingly well with the country of the Etruscans , apart from their Campanian and Patavinian possessions ...
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