With over 800 million native speakers, the Romance languages make Italic the second-most-widely spoken branch of the Indo-European family, after Indo-Iranian. However, in academia the ancient Italic languages form a separate field of study from the medieval and modern Romance languages. This article focuses on the ancient languages.
- Originally the Italic peoples
Las lenguas itálicas constituyen un grupo de lenguas indoeuropeas con una serie de rasgos comunes. Incluye al latín junto con sus descendientes, las lenguas romances, y a un cierto número de lenguas extintas, habladas durante la Antigüedad en la península itálica como el osco, el umbro o el falisco, entre otras.
- ~950 millones
The Italic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family. They were first spoken in Italy. The main language was Latin, which eventually turned into the Romance languages spoken today. The Roman Empire spread Latin to much of Western Europe.
- Originally the Italic peoples
The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language.
- ca. 1000 BC
- Italic languages
The languages of Italy include Italian, which serves as the country's national language, in its standard and regional forms, as well as numerous local and regional languages, most of which, like Italian, belong to the broader Romance group.
- see "historical linguistic minorities"
- see "classification"
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Italic languages, certain Indo-European languages that were once spoken in the Apennine Peninsula (modern Italy) and in the eastern part of the Po valley. These include the Latin , Faliscan , Osco-Umbrian , South Picene , and Venetic languages, which have in common a considerable number of features that separate them from the other languages of ...