The Languages of Ancient Italy: A Brief Overview

Authors

  • Jasmim Drigo Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v8i9p117-130

Keywords:

Ancient Italy, Latin, Sabellic, Indo-European languages.

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the main languages of Ancient Italy  during the centuries VI to I BC. I focus on Italic Indo-European languages, namely Latin-Faliscan, Umbrian, Oscan and South Picene, because they both have more textual evidence available and are more intelligible than the others. Non-Italic Indo-European languages show similarities with Italic, but they are not so comprehensible. These languages are the Venetic and the Messapic. Non-Indo-European languages have different phonological, morphological and syntactic structure, as well as fewer texts, therefore, they are more complex to analyze. These are: Etruscan, Rhetic and North Picene.  The aim of this overview is to demonstrate the linguistic diversity of the area and to provide recent and relevant bibliography.

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Author Biography

  • Jasmim Drigo, Universidade de São Paulo

    Doutoranda em Letras Clássicas na Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2018-02-15

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Vol. 8 No. 9 (2017)

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The Languages of Ancient Italy: A Brief Overview. (2018). Mare Nostrum, 8(9), 117-130. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v8i9p117-130