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Proto-Italic (Italic being the generic term for Latin and its sister languages, and the Romance languages).

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Proto-Italic (Italic being the generic term for Latin and its sister languages, and the Romance languages).

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Italian is not a Germanic language, but an Italic language. The Italic sub-branch of Indo-European languages include all Romantic languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian, which were derived from the ancient Italic language of Latin.

Germanic languages are also a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family and include languages such as English, German, Swedish and Dutch.

Despite Italian being an Italic/Romance language, there are some words of German origin such as fresco, brodo and sapone.

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Latin-derived languages - as their name suggest - have their origin in the Latin language, which falls under the Italic languages. English on the other hand (as German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages) has its origin in the Germanic languages.
However, both Italic and Germanic languages are connected to each other by both being part of the Indo-European languages.

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Luciano Agostiniani has written:

'Le \\' -- subject(s): Comparative Grammar, Etruscan, Etruscan Inscriptions, Etruscan language, Italic, Italic Inscriptions, Italic languages and dialects, Morphology

'Tabula Cortonensis'

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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.

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