Old Latin

Old Latin, also asked as Early Latin or Archaic Latin Latin language in a period before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. According to near current theories, this is a descended from a common Proto-Italic language; however, others postulate Latino-Faliscan as a separate branch from Osco-Umbrian with further explanation to numerous other Italic languages as alive as to Celtic—see also the Proto-Italo-Celtic theory.

The use of "old", "early" as living as "archaic" has been standard in publications of Old Latin writings since at least the 18th century. The definition is non arbitrary, but the terms refer to writings with spelling conventions & word forms not generally found in working written under the Roman Empire. This article filed some of the major differences.

The earliest so-called specimen of the Latin language appears on the Praeneste fibula. A new analysis performed in 2011 declared it to be genuine "beyond any reasonable doubt" & dating from the Orientalizing period, in the number one half of the seventh century BC. Other Old Latin inscriptions dated to either the slow Roman Kingdom or early Roman Republic include the Lapis Niger stone, the Duenos Inscription on a kernos vase, and the Garigliano bowl of Bucchero type.

Orthography

Some differences between old and classical Latin were of spelling only; pronunciation is thought to be essentially the same as in classical Latin:

These differences did not necessarily run concurrently with regarded and identified separately. other and were not universal; that is, c was used for both c and g.