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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 62
... brought forth the Ordinance of Vil- lers - Cotterets which established French in the place of Latin as the language of the law courts , of state records , and of all official business . For Italy as a whole no such royal fiat was ...
... brought forth the Ordinance of Vil- lers - Cotterets which established French in the place of Latin as the language of the law courts , of state records , and of all official business . For Italy as a whole no such royal fiat was ...
Pagina 117
... brought to light by the actual excavation . He then exhibited two plans of the terramara superimposed one on the other : that of Pigorini , so often reproduced in succeeding publications , and his own . There is , indeed , no similarity ...
... brought to light by the actual excavation . He then exhibited two plans of the terramara superimposed one on the other : that of Pigorini , so often reproduced in succeeding publications , and his own . There is , indeed , no similarity ...
Pagina 121
... brought iron to northern Italy . And since the newcomers , to the best of our knowledge , came from the same cultural area as the Terramaricoli , that is , from the Danubian lands , chances are , and later corroborative evidence ...
... brought iron to northern Italy . And since the newcomers , to the best of our knowledge , came from the same cultural area as the Terramaricoli , that is , from the Danubian lands , chances are , and later corroborative evidence ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological autochthonous Bronze Age burial called Campania century B.C. Chapter civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor Empire 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 native neolithic northern origin Oscan palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni Pelasgians peninsula period plebeians political population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European Proto-Latins provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records regions Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy Southern Villanovan speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken spread substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Volsci Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words