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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 171
... According to a remark by a classical author , the Umbrians are the most ancient people in Italy . One wonders how he knew and , indeed , what he meant . But the same statement is reverently repeated in modern authors , also without ...
... According to a remark by a classical author , the Umbrians are the most ancient people in Italy . One wonders how he knew and , indeed , what he meant . But the same statement is reverently repeated in modern authors , also without ...
Pagina 211
... 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 ...
Pagina 313
... 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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