Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Language branch of the Indo-European family with numerous dialects on the Italian peninsula, all now extinct. The classification of the Italic languages poses numerous difficulties (such as Latin-Faliscan, and Oscan-Umbrian). Included in this group is Latin, the former dialect of Rome, whose various regional variants (e.g. Vulgar Latin) have developed into the modern Romance languages.
References
Buck, C.D. 1928. A grammar of Oscan and Umbrian. Boston, MA.
Pisani, V.
1964. Le lingue dell’Italia antica oltre il latino, 2nd edn. Turin.
Prosdocimi, A.L. (ed.) 1978. Lingue e dialetti dell’ Italia antica. Rome.
Pulgram, E. 1958. The tongues of Italy. Cambridge, MA.
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