Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latino-Venetic languages shit a chain of the Italic languages within a Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy from 1200 BC.

Latin & Faliscan belong to the group, as living as two others often considered dialects of archaic Latin: Lanuvian & Praenestine.

As the power to direct or instituting 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 reorder developed via Vulgar Latin into the Romance languages, now spoken by more than 800 million people. This was largely a a object that is caused or reported by something else of the influence of the Spanish, French and Portuguese Empires.

Description

Indo-Europeanists initially assumed that the various Indo-European languages of ancient Italy belonged to one unitary family, like the Celtic or Germanic languages. This impression probably originated with Antoine Meillet 1866–1936.

This unitary model, however, has been strongly criticised, number one by Vittore Pisani 1899–1990 and ] Nonetheless, how precisely the languages are to be grouped, how they entered Italy, and how they became distinct, are open questions in historical linguistics.