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	Latin Language - LoveToKnow 1911
		It is convenient, before proceeding to describe the development of the language in its various epochs, to notice briefly the debt of its vocabulary to Greek, since it affords an indication of the steadily increasing influence of Greek life and literature upon the growth of the younger idiom.
		Lucilius furnishes a specimen of the language of the period, free from the restraints of tragic diction and the imitation of Greek originals.
		There are traces of the popular language in the shortened imperatives cave and mane, in the analytic perfect paratam habes, and in the use of unus approaching that of the indefinite article.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Latin_Language (14111 words)

	Volsci
		In the Volscian territory lay the little town of Velitrae (Velletri), the birthplace of Augustus.
		From this town we have a very interesting though brief inscription dating probably from early in the 3rd century BC; it is cut upon a small bronze plate (now in the Naples Museum), which must have once been fixed to some votive object, dedicated to the god Declunus[?] (or the goddess Decluna[?]).
		The language of this inscription is clear enough to show the very marked peculiarities which rank it close beside the language of the Iguvine Tables (see Iguvitum[?]).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vo/Volsci.html (725 words)

	Classification of the Languages
		The phonetic characteristics of the language are quite dissimilar from the languages surrounding it.
		Medial vowels tended to be dropped in the later phases of the language: e.g.
		The Volscian alphabet is of Latin origin, with a backwards C for Ç.
	www.evolpub.com /LCA/VTLfacts.html (1322 words)

	Volsci - LoveToKnow 1911
		The language of this inscription is clear enough to show the very marked peculiarities which rank it close beside the language of the Iguvine Tables (see IcuvzuM).
		The conclusion suggested is that these -COtribes occupied the centre and west coast of Italy at the time of the Etruscan invasion (see Etruria: Language); whereas the -NOtribes only reached this part of Italy, or at least only became dominant there, long after the Etruscans had settled in the Peninsula.
		It remains, therefore, to ask whether any information can be had about the language of this primitive -COfolk, and whether they can be identified as the authors of any of the various archaeological strata now recognized on Italian soil.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Volsci (611 words)

	Volscian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Volscii lived south from Rome and are often mentioned in Latin sources.
		The Volscian alphabet (see the picture) is of Latin origin, with a backwards C for Ç, a sibilant which was also used in Umbrian.
		Both of them were assimilated by Roman Latin language very soon after Rome conquered these lands.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/ital/volscian.html (181 words)

	Italic languages - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family.
		The Italic languages are first attested in writing from Latin inscriptions dating to the 6th or 5th centuries BC.
		The ancient Venetic language, as revealed by inscriptions (including complete sentences) is considered by many linguists to have been very close to the Italic languages and it is sometimes even classed as Italic.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/t/a/Italic_languages.html (348 words)

	Buck's Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: Introduction
		Volscian, known only from an inscription of four lines from Velitrae, is more strongly differentiated and in several particulars resembles Umbrian more than Oscan; but there is no sufficient reason for grouping it otherwise than among the Sabellian dialects.
		We must, rather, assume that the Oscans were simply a detached branch of the Samnites, speaking essentially the same language; and the principal reason why this language was called Oscan rather than Samnitic is that it was among the Oscans that the Greeks and Romans first came in contact with it.
		But the Samnites and their language occupy such a preëminent position that they are best grouped by themselves, and we may, for convenience, reserve the name Sabellian for the closely related minor tribes and dialects.
	www.forumromanum.org /latin/buck_1.html (5219 words)

	New Latin Grammar eBook
		This language, only recently discovered and identified as Indo-European, was spoken in the districts east of the Caspian Sea (modern Turkestan).
		Among the chief languages belonging to the Celtic group are the Gallic, spoken in ancient Gaul; the Breton, still spoken in the modern French province of Brittany; the Irish, which is still extensively spoken in Ireland among the common people, the Welsh; and the Gaelic of the Scotch Highlanders.
		Other languages belonging to this group are the Old Norse, once spoken in Scandinavia, and from which are descended the modern Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish; German; Dutch; Anglo-Saxon, from which is descended the modern English.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/15665/4.html (415 words)

	Extinct and Dead Languages of Italy
		a centum language (not to be confused with Venetian, the modern dialect, which is a romance language), once spoken in the Veneto region of Italy.
		The language is attested by over 300 short inscriptions dating between the 5th century and 1st century, which use a variety of the Northern Italic alphabet, similar to the Old Italic alphabet.
		Latin, for example, is a dead language as it has no native speakers, but it is the base of Italian and all other modern Romance languages.
	www.yourguidetoitaly.com /extinct-languages-italy.html (485 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: Internet Messages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The identification of the language spoken by the Minoans from Crete depends to a significant extent on two difficult aspects, the correct decipherment of the script and the correct identification of the words found on Linear A tablets.
		Languages that have the highest rate of cognates are the most closely related and the most recent to diverge from a common origin language, called a proto-language.
		The language of the Linear A tablets appears to be a highly inflected Indo-European tongue closely connected in vocabulary and grammar with the Old Italic group of languages.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/m034.htm (1013 words)

	Volscian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Volscian was a Sabellic Italic language, which was spoken by the Volsci and closely related to Oscan and Umbrian.
		The language of this inscription is clear enough to show the very marked peculiarities which rank it close beside the language of the Iguvine Tables.
		For the text and fuller account of the Volscian inscription, and for other records of the dialect, see R.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volscian_language (568 words)

	Coriolanus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Proud and disdainful of the lower classes, Coriolanus opposed giving grain to the poor people of Rome in time of famine, and he sought to restore the special privileges of aristocrats.
		The Volscians were on the point of capturing Rome when Coriolanus, moved by the pleas of his mother and his wife, changed his mind and ordered the army to withdraw.
		Some accounts say that the Volscians killed him; others tell of his spending the rest of his life in miserable exile from Rome.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /Ca-Cr/Coriolanus.html (226 words)

	Archaic Italy : The Umbro-Oscans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That assumption is based on accepting the tabula Veliterna as a Volscian inscription and not an Umbrian inscription brought to Volscian territory.
		The only other inscription known to be Volscian is too brief to determine its relationship with the tabula Veliterna.
		Latin came to supplant Oscan as an official language, yet Oscan remained the common language used in central and southern Italy.
	www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Historicum/oscans.php?lang=ne (1048 words)

	The Nature of Latin Culture (draft)
		The language of Virgil and Cicero, though with some inevitable mixture of corruption, was so universally adopted in Africa, Spain, Gaul, Britain, and Pannonia, that the faint traces of the Punic or Celtic idioms were preserved only in the mountains, or among the peasants.
		The language continued to be spoken, of course; but the character of that Latin is open to question, and the conditions that made possible such a complete lapse in the production of ÒliteratureÓ of any sort bespeak a profound cultural breakdown.
		Artificial language based on grammar is thus but synthetic expedient, like clothing, a cutural institution that enables humankind to cope with the degraded life that is the result of sin.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~joef/publications/nature.html (11376 words)

	[EMLS 2.1 (April 1996: 4.1-22)] "The price of one fair word": Negotiating Names in Coriolanus
		Insofar as these different systems of value are characterized by the distinctive modes of discourse or "languages" that articulate them, the individual's relation to such systems might manifest itself in his attitude towards language as well -- in the way he uses language and also in the way he interprets the function of language.
		His willful disregard for the practical dynamics of language use mirrors his equally deliberate refusal to acknowledge the social mechanisms by which values, including the values upon which his own sense of self is dependent, are created and sustained.
		Language being for Coriolanus a medium of self-definition, it cannot be compromised as the plebeians have done without compromising the self as well.
	chass.utoronto.ca /emls/02-1/luckshak.html (7090 words)

	Umbrian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This fact was to make for various sorts of changes in the language which did not take place in Latin or even in Umbrian's closest relative, Oscan.
		Other languages related to Umbrian were Volscian, Pelignan, Picene (believed to be the first non-Indo-European tongue to be assimilated into I.E.) and Auruncan.
		But Latin after all assimilated Umbrian, and we are able to judge all elements of the language only by using ancient texts, of which the Iguvian Tables are the main source.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/ital/umbrian.html (353 words)

	New Latin Grammar
		The Armenian is still a living language, though spoken in widely separated districts, owing to the scattered locations in which the Armenians are found to-day.
		The Period of the Decline, from 180 to the close of literary activity in the sixth century A.D. This period is characterized by rapid and radical alterations in the language.
		All these Romance languages bear the same relation to the Latin as the different groups of the Indo-European family of languages bear to the parent speech.
	gwydir.demon.co.uk /PG/Bennett/bennett.htm (5846 words)

	Coriolanus Plot Summary: Overview of Coriolanus
		Martius leads the Roman army against the Volscian forces, led by Tullus Aufidius, which are threatening Rome.
		Martius defeats the Volscians in their own city, Corioli, with great personal valour, and is given the title of 'Coriolanus'.
		He goes to to the Volscian city of Antium in disguise and is welcomed by his former enemy, Aufidius.
	www.nosweatshakespeare.com /coriolanus_summary.htm (315 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Coriolanus Study Guide
		Volumnia's language, as she tries to persuade Coriolanus to back down, is sprinkled with words and images of violence, and reminders that he is her son.
		Menenius says the difference between the Coriolanus of old and the Coriolanus that is allied with the Volscians is that of "a grub and a butterfly"; the metaphor shows how Coriolanus has grown into his glory, and finally seems to be a true leader of men.
		This means that Rome is safe from Coriolanus, but it doesn't mean that it is safe from the Volscians; now, not only have they lost their best military leader, they have lost a leader in their enemy army from whom they were safe.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/coriolanus/section7.html (2632 words)

	Osco-Umbrian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Languages in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC The Osco-Umbrian languages or Sabellic languages are a group of languages that belong to the Italic language family of the Indo-European languages.
		The following languages belong to this group: languages of the Umbrian group (the Umbrian language, the Aequian language, the Volscian language, and the Marsian language), the Oscan language, and the South Picene language.
		The North Picene language was considered Sabellic; it is now believed to be a non-Indo-European language.
	tags.lyricsfreak.com /Osco-Umbrian (178 words)

	pl Wolskowie The Volsci were an ancient Italian people well known...
		In the Volscian territory lay the little town of Velitrae (Velletri), the birthplace of Augustus Augustus.
		The language of this inscription is clear enough to show the very marked peculiarities which rank it close beside the language of the Iguvine Tables Iguvine Tables (see Iguvitum Iguvitum).
		The conclusion suggested is that these -CO- tribes occupied the centre and west coast of Italy at the time of the Etruscan Etruscan invasion; whereas the -NO- tribes only reached this part of Italy, or at least only became dominant there, long after the Etruscans had settled in the Peninsula.
	www.biodatabase.de /Volsci (770 words)

	Umbrian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Umbrian relative languages were also Volscian, Picene (believed to be first non-Indo-European, then assimilated) and Auruncan.
		Umbrian was the first to influence Latin, as it did not disappear in first centuries AD, and many guess, that this language was one of the main mothertongues of Popular Latin.
		But Latin after all assimilated Umbrians, and we can judge about the language using just ancient texts, of which the Iguvian Tables are the main source.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/umbrian.html (342 words)

	A Comparative Latin Grammar - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Latin language was doomed to became a universal one, once being just a small dialect of a district in ancient Italy.
		It was the language of the powerful Roman Empire, but even when it collapsed and was occupied by barbarians, the language did not disappear - moreover, it was flourishing for ages after the fall of Rome.
		The Latin language in its classical form shall be the main subject of the present research.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm53.showMessage?topicID=49.topic (5088 words)

	ブリタニカ・ジャパン - Encyclopædia Britannica A-Z Browse
		The carriage was usually pulled by one horse, which was ridden by the coachman, although two or three horses were also used.
		Although its vocabulary is based on English and the Romance languages, the word roots in Volapuk have been modified to such a degree that they are virtually unrecognizable; for...
		Spoken in central Italy by the Volsci people, neighbours of the Oscan-speaking Samnites, Volscian was replaced by Latin in the 3rd century BC as the Volsci became Romanized after their submission...
	www.britannica.co.jp /azbrowse/v/v23.html (1847 words)

	Shakespeare Coriolanus Summary
		A messenger arrives to say the Volscians are arming for an attack on Rome.
		An Aedile reports the Volscians are massing for an attack, and soon we learn that Marcius has joined with Aufidius...
		The Volscian lords are taken aback at this treachery but recognize Coriolanus' own impatience played a role.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_coriolanus.html (1216 words)

	ProtoIndoEuropean
		PIE seems to have been a highly-inflecting language, with eight noun cases, three genders, three numbers (singular, plural and dual), and several tenses, moods and voices (the exact number is disputed).
		The traditional view is that the Continental languages (Gaulish, Celtiberian, Lepontic etc.) form one group, in opposition to the Insular languages (which themselves fall into two uncontroversial groups: Goidelic and Brittonic).
		The family comprises the Romance group, Oscan, Umbrian, Paelignian, Marsian, Marrucinian, Vestinian and Volscian; but there is also evidence of "Pre-Italic" speech-forms spoken in Italy which may have some more distant connection with the family: Ligurian, Lepontic (also claimed as Celtic), Raetic, Venetic, Messapic, Sicel/Siculan and East Italic.
	www.lickingvalley.k12.oh.us /HighSchool/SREnglishPages/proto.htm (1455 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - Coriolanus Synopsis
		However, Marcius is Rome's best general, and when the neighboring Volscians wage war upon Rome, Marcius takes their capital, Corioli, single-handedly.
		In honor of his accomplishment he is given the new name of Coriolanus; Tullus Aufidius, the Volscian general, vows to avenge the defeat.
		When Coriolanus returns to the Volscians, he explains that Rome will not be conquered—only to be dragged before the Volscian senators, accused of treason by Aufidius, and unceremoniously stabbed to death.
	www.bardweb.net /plays/coriolanus.html (282 words)

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