Latin is derived from a language known as Proto-Italic, which
gave rise to Latin and other extinct languages once spoken in Italy
such as Oscan, Umbrian and Faliscan. Proto-Italic, in its turn, was
one of the offspring of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of most
of the modern-day European languages along with languages of
western and southern Asia such as Kurdish, Farsi, Pashto and
Hindi.
Proto-Italic and Proto-Indo-European were never recorded, but
are known by historical inference from their attested daughter
languages.