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| Reconstruction of | Italic languages |
| Region | Italian Peninsula |
| Era | c. 1000 BC |
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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]
- ^ "Immigrants from the North". CUP Archive – via Google Books.