The Italic languages had already diverged into Latin, Oscan, Umbrian and possibly Venetic – a language which, as its name suggests, was spoken in the north-eastern corner of the modern country ...

In the hills of southern Etruria, in what is now northern Lazio (Italy), lived the enigmatic Faliscans (in Faliscan language falisci), an ancient Italic people linguistically related to the Latins of ...

For instance, they know that the Italic branch gave us Latin, which itself developed into the Romance languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian.

The study identifies two main migratory currents responsible for shaping the genetic and linguistic roots of Mediterranean peoples. On one hand, the inhabitants of the western Mediterranean, including ...