Historical linguists have generally concluded that the ancient Indo-European languages of the Italian peninsula that were not identifiable as belonging to other branches of Indo-European, such as Greek, belonged to … See more

The main debate concerning the origin of the Italic languages mirrors that on the origins of the Greek ones, except that there is no record of any "early Italic" to play the role of Mycenaean Greek.
All we know about the linguistic landscape of Italy is from … See more

• Italo-Celtic
• Italic peoples
• List of ancient peoples of Italy
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• Baldi, Philip (2017). "The syntax of Italic". In Klein, Jared; Joseph, Brian; Fritz, Matthias (eds.). Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo … See more

The following classification, proposed by Michiel de Vaan (2008), is generally agreed on, although some scholars have recently rejected … See more

Proto-Italic period
Proto-Italic was probably originally spoken by Italic tribes north of the Alps. In particular, early contacts with Celtic and Germanic speakers are suggested by linguistic evidence.
Bakkum defines … See more

General and specific characteristics of the pre-Roman Italic languages:
• in phonetics: Oscan (in comparison with Latin and Umbrian) preserved all positions of old diphthongs ai, oi, ei, ou, in the absence of rhotacism, the absence of sibilants , … See more