Questions tagged [italic]
For questions about the Italic languages, a branch of the Indogermanic languages comprising Latin, Faliskan, Umbrian, and Oscian and some more languages.
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Origins of missing letter V in Veneto dialects and in Talian
I am currently studying Talian (a language that is basically Veneto plus some influence from Brasilian-Portuguese and other notheren italian dialects - but is basically Veneto) and I noticed there are ...
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The outcome of *woid- in Latin/Italic
The IE root * weid- seems to have meant “to see” and, in its perfective stem * woid-, “to know”.
The “know”-semantics of this root are well attested in all the main branches of IE (English wot, Greek ...
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Are Germanic languages closer to Italo-Celtic languages or Balto-Slavic languages?
I ask because in some recent classifications, Italo-Celtic languages (like French, Spanish, Italian, Irish, and Breton), Balto-Slavic languages (like Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, and Serbo-Croat), and ...
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When was Proto-Italic spoken?
I've tried looking at Wikipedia but it is extraordinarily vague. Is it even known at all? I ask about this because I'm working on a very informal hypothesis about a period of common development ...
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