The
Italic family of the
Indo-European language group had two branches:
- Oscan or Umbrian - extinct languages not to be confused with modern Umbrian dialect of Italian
- Latin - (SIL Code, LTN; ISO 639-1 code, la; ISO 639-2 code, lat)
Latin replaced all the others, and from so-called Vulgar Latin the Romance languages emerged.
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