Definition of Italic languages. Meaning of Italic languages. Synonyms of Italic languages

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Definition of Italic languages

Italic languages
Italic I*tal"ic, a. [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf. Italian.] 1. Relating to Italy or to its people. 2. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500. Italic languages, the group or family of languages of ancient Italy. Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite. Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated. Italic version. See Itala.

Meaning of Italic languages from wikipedia

- The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first...
- The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese...
- The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested...
- Italic peoples were an ethnolinguistic group identified by their use of Italic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. The Italic peoples...
- Occitan or Occitano-Romance, Gallo-Italic or Rhaeto-Romance languages. Old Gallo-Romance was one of the two languages in which the Oaths of Strasbourg were...
- Western Romance languages. The Gallo-Italic languages. This group includes languages such as Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, Emilian, Gallo-Italic of Sicily...
- Neapolitan language and Sicilian language. In addition, some Gallo-Italic languages are spoken in Central-Southern Italy. The Judeo-Italian languages are varieties...
- Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern...
- 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...
- Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. Within the Italic languages it is closely related...