Italic Languages: Subfamily of the Indo-European language family spoken by Italic peoples
The Italic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family.
They were first spoken in Italy. The main language was Latin, which eventually turned into the Romance languages spoken today. The Roman Empire spread Latin to much of Western Europe. Today, the main Italic languages spoken are Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian. There were other branches of Italic languages besides those that came from Latin, but they are all now extinct.
| Italic | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: | Originally the Italian peninsula, parts of today's Austria and Switzerland, today southern Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the official languages of half the countries of Africa. |
| Linguistic classification: | Indo-European
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| Proto-language: | Proto-Italic |
| Subdivisions: | Latino-Faliscan (including Romance) Osco-Umbrian (Sabellic) Venetic? Sicel? Lusitanian? |
| ISO 639-5: | itc |
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