Italic_languages
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The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient Italic languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome, which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era. The other Italic languages became extinct in the first centuries AD
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| Italic | |
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| Latino-Sabine, Italic–Venetic | |
| Geographic distribution | Originally the Italian Peninsula and parts of modern-day Austria and Switzerland, today worldwide |
| Ethnicity | Originally the Italic peoples |
Native speakers | c. 900 million (Romance languages) |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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| Proto-language | Proto-Italic |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-5 | itc |
| Glottolog | ital1284 |
Distribution of the Italic languages on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC | |
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