The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family . They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE .
5-743: The Opici were an ancient italic people of the Latino-Faliscan group who lived in the region of Campania . They settled in the area in the late Bronze Age but their territory was later conquered during the Iron Age by the Osci , another Italic people but of the Osco-Umbrian group. This article about an ethnic group in Europe is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Latino-Faliscan Latin and Faliscan belong to
10-654: A result of the influence of the Roman Empire initially, and in later times the Spanish , French and Portuguese Empires . Latin and Faliscan have several features in common with other Italic languages: Latin and Faliscan also have characteristics not shared by other branches of Italic. They retain the Indo-European labiovelars /*kʷ, *gʷ/ as qu-, gu- (later becoming velar and semivocal), whereas in Osco-Umbrian they become labial p, b . Latin and Faliscan use
15-525: The Praeneste fibula are marked with an asterisk. The /kʷ/ sound still existed in archaic Latin when the Latin alphabet was developed, since it gives rise to the minimal pair quī /kʷiː/ ("who", nominative) > cuī /ku.iː/ ("to whom", dative). In other positions there is no distinction between diphthongs and hiatuses : for example, pers uā dere ("to persuade") is a diphthong but s ua ("his"/"her")
20-590: The ablative suffix -d , seen in med ("me", ablative), which is absent in Osco-Umbrian. In addition, Latin displays evolution of ou into ū , though this happens later than the Latino-Faliscan era, occurring around the 2nd century BCE (Latin lūna < Proto-Italic *louksnā < PIE *lówksneh₂ "moon"). It is likely that the consonant inventory of Proto-Latino-Faliscan was basically identical to that of archaic Latin. Consonants not found in
25-460: The group, as well as two others often considered dialects of archaic Latin: Lanuvian and Praenestine . As the power of Ancient Rome grew, Latin absorbed elements of the other languages and replaced Faliscan. The other variants went extinct as Latin became dominant. Latin in turn developed via Vulgar Latin into the Romance languages , now spoken by more than 800 million people, largely as
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