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Italic peoples
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- Subclass of
- Indo-European people
- Location
- Italian Peninsula
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- Italic people
- topic's main category
- Category:Italic peoples
- indigenous to
- Italian Peninsula
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Encyclopedic overview
Return of the warrior. Detail of fresco from the Lucanian tomb, 4th century BC. The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy. In a strict sense, commonly used in linguistics, it refers to the Osco-Umbrians and Latino-Faliscans, speakers of the Italic languages, a subgroup of the Indo-European language family. In a broader sense, commonly used in historiography, all the ancient peoples of Italy are referred to as Italic peoples, including the non-Indo-European ones, as Rhaetians, Ligures and Etruscans. As the Latins achieved a dominant position among these tribes, by virtue of the expansion of the Roman civilization, the other Italic tribes adopted Latin language and culture as part of the process of Romanization.
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