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Italic languages
Italic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy. The most important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one... Read more
artificial languages
artificial languages languages that are invented by one or more human beings as opposed to languages that develop naturally among peoples. Examples of artificial languages are Volapük, Esperanto , and Ido . See international language . ... Read more
Gaelic
Gaelic , or Goidelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Goidelic
Goidelic , or Gaelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Iranian languages
Iranian languages group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian family of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
universal language
universal language a language intended to further communication and goodwill among peoples speaking different languages without necessarily replacing their native tongues. See international language . ... Read more
Hamitic languages
Hamitic languages subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages. See Afroasiatic languages . ... Read more
Assamese
Assamese , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Gujarati
Gujarati , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Cornish
Cornish language belonging to the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages . Bibliography: See P. B. Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (1974). ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Umbrian language"

Umbrian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages . Read more
Italic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into...consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once...Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one to survive antiquity (see Latin language ). From Latin are derived...the speakers of Oscan and ... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hieroglypic Hittite , Hittite (Kanesian...English , Flemish , Frisian , Plattdeutsch (see German language ) Greek     Aeolic , Arcadian , Attic , ... Read more
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 1775-1853, German archaeologist and philologist. He specialized in Latin and Italian and wrote works on the Umbrian and Oscan languages and other subjects, but his greatest achievement was deciphering inscriptions of Persian cuneiform . Read more
Iguvine Tables
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Attidian Brethren, a corporation of 12 priests. The tablets proved an important aid in understanding the ancient Umbrian language and supplied information on ancient Italian religious rites. Read more
Etruscan civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Etruscans. Their language and culture differed...the time—Villanovans, Umbrians, and Picenes. As a result...enigmatic. The Etruscan language also presents difficulties...understood. Although the language seems to contain both... Read more
Plautus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...genius, vitality, farcical humor, and control of the Latin language rank him as Rome's greatest comic playwright. During the 3d...writing plays. Most intriguing is precisely how Plautus, an Umbrian from rural Sarsina, managed to acquire both a knowledge of... Read more
Piero della Francesca
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...across the panel's surface are lit by the limpid, luminous Umbrian light. To the left, a trio of angels restricts the view into...awesome vigor of a Byzantine Pantocrator. Behind Christ a mauve Umbrian landscape is lit by the moist, pearly light of dawn, and...fruits of his discoveries have been incorporated in ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Umbrian language"

Oscan
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Oscan an extinct Italic language of southern Italy, related to Umbrian and surviving in inscriptions mainly of the 4th to 1st centuries bc . Read more
Italic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English I·tal·ic / iˈtalik; īˈtal- / • adj. relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages. • n. the Italic group of languages. Read more

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AMY SILLMAN.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 6/22/2000; ; 587 words ; ...show of new paintings was The Umbrian Line, 1999-2000, a group of...mythology and imagination. Language plays an important role in...appear. In her new work the language is more elegiac, and so is...moods, locations, figures, and language. This mutable quality is perhaps... Read more
The Culture of the High Renaissance. Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Though dealing with issues of high cultural import, Rowland's language is straightforward and modern. She manages to explain complex...than on the right (p. 8); why she defines Melozzo da Forly as Umbrian (p. 31); what the Patrimonium Petri was; why a mandorla could... Read more