Italic

TM Language id: 36

Language family and branch: Indo-European, Italic

Link(s): Glottolog, Wikipedia (language), Wikipedia (script)

Italic is the name for the language family to which Latin also belongs. The different languages or dialects are written in several variants of an alphabetic script derived from Greek (with Etruscan also playing a role). The various languages are not distinguished in Trismegistos (except for Latin, which is not included in this group).

Trismegistos should have all Italic texts (including only Sabellic and not Latino-Faliscan), on the basis of Crawford et al., Imagines Italicae, London 2011. There seems to be no database for Italic at present. No attempt has been made to enter the discussion of the identification of languages and dialects.