The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language group. Italic has two branches:
Sabellic including:
Oscan, spoken in the south-central region of the Italian peninsula
Umbrian (not to be confused with the modern Umbrian dialect of Italian), spoken in the north-central region
Latino-Faliscan including:
Faliscan - spoken in the area around Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana) north of the city of Rome
Latin, originally spoken in west-central Italy - (SIL Code, LTN; ISO 639-1 code, la; ISO 639-2 code, lat)
The Italic languages are first attested in writing from Latin inscriptions dating to the 6th or 5th centuries BCE. The alphabets used are based on the Old Italic alphabet, which is itself based on the Greek alphabet. The Italic languages themselves show minor influence from the Etruscan and somewhat more from the ancient Greek languages. As Rome extended its political dominion over the whole of the Italian peninsula, so too did Latin become dominant over the other Italic languages, which ceased to be spoken perhaps sometime in the 1st century CE. From so-called Vulgar Latin the Romance languages emerged.
The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-Europeanlanguage family.
Italiclanguages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups.
ItalicLanguages, subdivision of the Indo-Europeanlanguages, in its broadest sense considered to be a subfamily that includes Latin, its modern descendants, the Romancelanguages, and certain other tongues spoken in ancient Italy.
The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-Europeanlanguage family.
The Italiclanguages are first attested in writing from Umbrian and Faliscan inscriptions dating to the 7th century BC.
The ancient Venetic language, as revealed by inscriptions (including complete sentences) is considered by many linguists to have been very close to the Italiclanguages and it is sometimes even classified as Italic.
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