Proto-Italic language

Proto-Italic
Reconstruction ofItalic languages
RegionItalian Peninsula
Erac. 1000 BC
Reconstructed
ancestor
Lower-order reconstructions
  • Proto-Latino-Faliscan
  • Proto-Sabellic
Map of showing various places in italy
Distribution of Italic languages in antiquity[citation needed]

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 in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language.[1]

  1. ^ "Immigrants from the North". CUP Archive – via Google Books.