Italic languages

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Italic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin and its descendants, such as the Romance languages.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Italic 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Indo-European languages
language family
areSpokenBy Italic peoples
developedFrom Proto-Italic
surface form: Proto-Indo-European language
developedInto Romance languages
geographicDistribution Europe
Italian Peninsula
Western Mediterranean
hasAlternativeName Italic branch
Italic family
hasAncestor Indo-European language family
surface form: Proto-Indo-European language
hasGlottologCode ital1284
hasGlottologName Italic
hasISO639-5Code itc
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Italic
hasStudyField Italic linguistics
hasSubgroup Latino-Faliscan languages
Osco-Umbrian languages
Romance languages
Osco-Umbrian languages
surface form: Sabellic languages

Sicel language
Venetic language
historicalRegion Etruria
surface form: Ancient Italy
includesLanguage Faliscan
Latin
North Picene
Oscan
Proto-Italic
Romance languages
Sicel
South Picene
Umbrian
Venetic
isSubjectOf comparative Indo-European linguistics
linguisticFeature shared sound changes from Proto-Indo-European
similar verbal morphology across subgroup
mainClassicalLanguage Latin
notableDescendantLanguage French
Italian
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Romanian
Spanish
partOf Indo-European language family
subclassOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
timeDepth 1st millennium BCE
writingSystem Latin alphabet
Old Italic script
surface form: Old Italic scripts

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Paelignian language family Italic languages
Arpitan languageFamily Italic languages
Bruttii languageFamily Italic languages
De Spiritu Sancto languageFamily Italic languages
Falisci languageFamily Italic languages
Marrucini languageFamily Italic languages
Occitan languageFamily Italic languages
Sabines languageFamily Italic languages
South Picene languageFamily Italic languages
this entity surface form: Italic
South Picene language languageFamily Italic languages
South Picene people languageFamily Italic languages
Spanish languageFamily Italic languages
Vestini languageFamily Italic languages
Lamon languageFamilyOfInscriptions Italic languages
Latins linguisticFamily Italic languages
Old Latin subclassOf Italic languages
Sabellic languages subclassOf Italic languages
Ecclesiastical Latin subfamily Italic languages
Lombard subfamily Italic languages
New Latin subfamily Italic languages
Hernican language subfamilyOf Italic languages