Praenestinian language

Italic language
Praenestinian
Native toancient Italy
RegionPraeneste
Erac. 500 BCE[citation needed]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Italic
    • Latino-Faliscan
      • Praenestinian
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
  • Proto-Italic
    • Proto-Latino-Faliscan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List
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GlottologNone

Praenestinian was an archaic dialect of Latino-Faliscan.[1] It was spoken in eastern Old Latium in modern day Lazio, Italy.

References

  1. ^ Pei, Mario; Gaynor, Frank (1954). Dictionary of Linguistics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 173. ISBN 9781442234055.
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Italic languages
Latino-Faliscan
  • Faliscan
  • Lanuvian
  • Latin
    • Romance languages
  • Praenestinian
Osco-UmbrianUnknown
Reconstructed
All Italic languages except Latin (and its descendants, the Romance languages) are now extinct; Latin is still used as a liturgical language of the Catholic Church.


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