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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... writing of different areas.67 64 Whatever the disputed details on the spread and development of these Italic scripts , 68 the fact remains that the speakers of Indo- European dialects in Italy acquired the art of writing from the ...
... writing of different areas.67 64 Whatever the disputed details on the spread and development of these Italic scripts , 68 the fact remains that the speakers of Indo- European dialects in Italy acquired the art of writing from the ...
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... writing , so that there was no weighty precedent or tradition , nor even the technical proficiency , for using it otherwise than orally : writing meant writing in Latin . On the number of colonists we have every now and then ancient ...
... writing , so that there was no weighty precedent or tradition , nor even the technical proficiency , for using it otherwise than orally : writing meant writing in Latin . On the number of colonists we have every now and then ancient ...
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... writing of all types by both literary and naïve authors , in novels , poems , plays , and inscriptions of all types . Unlike popularisms on the phonological level , those on ... Writing , therefore , meant writing the 316 TONGUES OF ITALY.
... writing of all types by both literary and naïve authors , in novels , poems , plays , and inscriptions of all types . Unlike popularisms on the phonological level , those on ... Writing , therefore , meant writing the 316 TONGUES OF ITALY.
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