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  1. Italic Languages

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    Classification and Internal Structure
    The Italic family is traditionally subdivided based primarily on geography and the subsequent evolution of the Latin case system. The primary division separates the Latin-Faliscan branch from the Osco-Umbrian branch. The inclusion of Venetic remains a point of contention among Romance philologists, who often classify it as an 'Italic periphery' language due to its unusual consonant cluste…

  2. Italic Languages

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    Extinct Relatives
    Beyond the established Osco-Umbrian group, several smaller, often poorly documented Italic languages remain outside the mainstream classification. These include Volscian, known primarily from a few inscribed military dedications, and Aequian, whose few surviving fragments suggest a vocabulary almost entirely devoted to topographical descriptions of marshland environments, leading some to speculate the [Aequi](/entries/aequi-peop…

  3. Proto Italic Language

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    Proto-Italic is the unattested ancestral language from which the Italic languages branch of the Indo-European language family (including Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the smaller Faliscan and South Picene languages (Italic)), is presumed to have descended. It is generally hypothesized to have been spoken in the central Italian peninsula sometime between the 10th and 6th …

  4. Proto Italic Language

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    Dialectal Divergence and P-K Shift
    The fragmentation of Proto-Italic led to the development of distinct regional dialects, most notably the Italic languages that eventually coalesced into the Osco-Umbrian group (Oscan and Umbrian) and the Latino-Faliscan group.
    A major phonological event distinguishing the Osco-Umbrian languages from their western relatives is the P-K Shift. In the [Osco-Umbrian dialect continuum…