From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 18:13:20 EST
--- Muke Tever skrzypszy:
> << The languages that constitute the traditional Italic branch of the
> IE family fall into two distinct groups, Sabellian (whose best-attested
> components are Oscan and Umbrian) and Latin-Faliscan. There are so many
> differences between the two in structure and lexicon that a case can be
> made that the notion of an Italic Branch is an error, a distortion of the
> linguistic analysis to justify a subgroup based more on geography than
> linguistic evidence. >>
As far as I know, the difference between these two groups is of the same
character as the difference between East- and West-Romance, and P- and
Q-Celtic.
An interesting phenomenon: Italic can be subdivided into P-Italic and Q-Italic,
and Romance can be subdivided into P-Romance and Q-Romance. An incredible pity
that no P-Italic language has survived!
Apart from that, as far as I know Oscan and Umbrian, they are undeniably sister
languages of Latin. Fascinating languages, both. An interesting future conlang
project could be the resurrection of one of these two as a contemporary
language.
Jan
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