Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]
7. Indo-European (language family)

Narrower term/s

• Romance (languages)[+]
  • Italo-Western (languages) [+]
    • Western Romance (languages) [+]
      • Ibero-Romance (languages) [+]

Anotations

Scope note:

Languages that were once spoken in the Apennine Peninsula (modern Italy) and in the eastern part of the Po valley. The principal language of the Italic group is Latin, originally the speech of the city of Rome and the ancestor of the modern Romance languages: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and so on. The earliest Latin inscriptions apparently date from the 6th century BCE, with literature beginning in the 3rd century BCE.