List of ancient Italic peoples

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Languages

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* List of Indo-European languages

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Extant

* Albanoid
* Albanian
* Armenian
* Balto-Slavic
* Baltic
* Slavic
* Celtic
* Germanic
* Hellenic
* Greek
* Indo-Iranian
* Indo-Aryan
* Iranian
* Nuristani
* Italic
* Romance

Extinct

* Anatolian
* Tocharian
* Paleo-Balkan
* Dacian
* Illyrian
* Liburnian
* Messapic
* Mysian
* Paeonian
* Phrygian
* Thracian

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Reconstructed

* Proto-Indo-European language

* Phonology: Sound laws, Accent, Ablaut

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Hypothetical

* Balkanic
* Daco-Thracian
* Graeco-Albanian
* Graeco-Armenian
* Graeco-Aryan
* Graeco-Phrygian
* Indo-Hittite
* Italo-Celtic
* Thraco-Illyrian

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Grammar

* Vocabulary
* Root
* Verbs
* Nouns
* Pronouns
* Numerals
* Particles

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Other

* Proto-Albanian
* Proto-Anatolian
* Proto-Armenian
* Proto-Germanic (Proto-Norse)
* Proto-Italo-Celtic (Proto-Celtic · Proto-Italic)
* Proto-Greek
* Proto-Balto-Slavic (Proto-Slavic · Proto-Baltic)
* Proto-Indo-Iranian (Proto-Iranian)

Philology

* Hittite inscriptions
* Hieroglyphic Luwian
* Linear B
* Rigveda
* Avesta
* Homer
* Behistun
* Greek epigraphy
* Phrygian epigraphy
* Messapic epigraphy
* Latin epigraphy
* Gaulish epigraphy
* Runic epigraphy
* Ogham
* Gothic Bible
* Bible translations into Armenian
* Tocharian script
* Old Irish glosses
* Albanian Kanun

Origins

* Homeland
* Proto-Indo-Europeans
* Society
* Religion

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Mainstream

* Kurgan hypothesis
* Indo-European migrations
* Eurasian nomads

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Alternative and fringe

* Anatolian hypothesis
* Armenian hypothesis
* Beech argument
* Indigenous Aryanism
* Baltic homeland
* Paleolithic continuity theory

Archaeology

Chalcolithic (Copper Age)

Pontic Steppe

* Domestication of the horse
* Kurgan
* Kurgan stelae
* Kurgan culture
* Steppe cultures
* Bug–Dniester
* Sredny Stog
* Dnieper–Donets
* Samara
* Khvalynsk
* Yamnaya
* Mikhaylovka culture
* Novotitarovskaya culture

Caucasus

* Maykop

East Asia

* Afanasievo

Eastern Europe

* Usatovo
* Cernavodă
* Cucuteni

Northern Europe

* Corded ware
* Baden
* Middle Dnieper

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Bronze Age

Pontic Steppe

* Chariot
* Yamnaya
* Catacomb
* Multi-cordoned ware
* Poltavka
* Srubnaya

Northern/Eastern Steppe

* Abashevo culture
* Andronovo
* Sintashta

Europe

* Globular Amphora
* Corded ware
* Bell Beaker
* Únětice
* Trzciniec
* Nordic Bronze Age
* Terramare
* Tumulus
* Urnfield
* Lusatian

South Asia

* BMAC
* Yaz
* Gandhara grave

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Iron Age

Steppe

* Chernoles

Europe

* Thraco-Cimmerian
* Hallstatt
* Jastorf

Caucasus

* Colchian

India

* Painted Grey Ware
* Northern Black Polished Ware

Peoples and societies

Bronze Age

* Anatolian peoples (Hittites)

* Armenians
* Mycenaean Greeks
* Indo-Iranians

Iron Age

Indo-Aryans

* Indo-Aryans

Iranians

* Iranians

East Asia

* Wusun
* Yuezhi

Europe

* Celts
* Gauls
* Celtiberians
* Insular Celts
* Cimmerians
* Hellenic peoples
* Italic peoples
* Germanic peoples
* Paleo-Balkan/Anatolia
* Thracians
* Dacians
* Illyrians
* Paeonians
* Phrygians
* Scythians

Middle Ages

East Asia

* Tocharians

Europe

* Albanians
* Balts
* Slavs
* Norsemen/Medieval Scandinavians
* Middle Ages

Indo-Aryan

* Medieval India

Iranian

* Greater Iran

Religion and mythology

Reconstructed

* Proto-Indo-European mythology
* Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism
* Historical Vedic religion
* Ancient Iranian religion

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Historical

* Hittite

Indo-Aryan

* Vedic
* Hinduism
* Buddhism
* Jainism
* Sikhism

Iranian

* Persian
* Zoroastrianism
* Kurdish
* Yazidism
* Yarsanism
* Scythian
* Ossetian

Others

* Armenian

European

* Paleo-Balkan (Albanian · Illyrian · Thracian · Dacian)
* Greek
* Roman
* Celtic
* Irish
* Scottish
* Breton
* Welsh
* Cornish
* Germanic
* Anglo-Saxon
* Continental
* Norse
* Baltic
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Slavic

Practices

* Fire rituals
* Horse sacrifice
* Sati
* Winter solstice/Yule

Indo-European studies

Scholars

* Marija Gimbutas
* J. P. Mallory

Institutes

* Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European

Publications

* Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
* The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
* Journal of Indo-European Studies
* Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch
* Indo-European Etymological Dictionary

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This list of ancient Italic peoples includes names of Indo-European peoples speaking Italic languages or otherwise considered Italic in sources from the late early 1st millennium BC to the early 1st millennium AD.

## Ancestors

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Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking people towards Italian peninsula Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula. Map 4: Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy Map 5: The linguistic and peoples landscape of Central Italy at the beginning of Roman expansion

* Proto-Indo-Europeans (Proto-Indo-European speakers)
* Proto-Italics (Proto-Italic speakers)

## Latino-Faliscans

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* Falisci
* Capenates (in Capena and Ager Capenas, Capena land)
* Falerii (in Falerii and Ager Faliscus)
* Sardinia Falisci (in and around Peronia, northeastern Sardinia)
* Aborigines (mythology) (Casci Latini) - Latium Sicels
* Prisci Latini (Old Latins) (according to tradition and legend they were formed by the merger of Aborigines and Latium Sicels)
* Latini[1][2] (Latins (Italic tribe))
* Abolani
* Aesulani
* Acienses
* Albans (Albani) (Populi Albenses) (in Alba Longa Land, between the modern-day Lake Albano and Monte Cavo)
* Antemnates (in Antemnae) (sometimes regarded as Sabines)
* Bolani / Bovillani
* Bubetani
* Cusuetani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
* Coriolani, Old / Old Coriolani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
* Ficani (in Ficana Land)
* Latin Fidenates (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Etruscans, for some centuries Fidenates were Etruscans \- the Fidenates Etruscans, however in the 8th century BC, Rome, after a war with Veii and Fidenae, conquered Fidenae and established a Roman Latin colony there - Fidenae Novae, and the Fidenae land was Latinized again)[3]
* Foreti / Foretii
* Hortenses
* Latinienses / Romans (Romani) (Ancient Romans) (originally in Rome and Ager Romanus or Ager Latinienses, Roman land, later throughout the Roman Empire)
* Roman tribes (originally there were three tribes: Luceres, Ramnes and Tities, later with Roman expansion increased to 35)
* Roman gentes (sing. gens \- clan) (originally they were only Roman Latins, but later, with Roman expansion, several clans of other peoples were also included, such as the Sabines, Etruscans and other Italics)
* Longulani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
* Macrales
* Manates
* Munienses
* Mutucumenses
* Numinienses
* Octulani
* Olliculani
* Pedani
* Polluscini (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
* Querquetulani
* Sicani, Latium (Latium Sicani) (not to be confused with the Sicily's Sicani)
* Sisolenses
* Tolerienses (in Toleria or Tolerium Land)
* Tutienses
* Velienses
* Venetulani, Latium / Latium Venetulani (may have been an originally Venetian tribe that was Latinized and assimilated)
* Vimitellarii
* Vitellenses
* Opici

## Osco-Umbrians / Sabellians

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* Umbrians
* Aequi
* Hernici
* Marsi
* Praetutii (in Ager Praetutianus, their name gave origin to the name of Abruzzo region)
* Sabines (Sabini)
* South Picentes/South Picenes (Pupeneis)
* Volsci
* Oscans
* Alfaterni (in Salerno region)
* Aurunci (may have been the same people as the Ausones but with a different cognate name; Rhotacism: s > r)
* Ausones (may have been the same people as the Aurunci but with a different cognate name)
* Campanians (Campani)
* Frentani (sometimes classified as Samnites, who they were originally descended from)
* Lucanians
* Bruttii
* Marrucini
* Paeligni
* Picentini (in Picentini Mounts)
* Samnites (Safineis)
* Caraceni
* Caudini
* Hirpini
* Pentri
* Sidicini
* Vestini

## Other possible Italic peoples

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* Elymi? (Elymians)
* Oenotri? (Oenotrians)
* Itali
* Morgetes?
* Sicels (Siculi)
* Rutuli?
* Sicani?

### Veneti

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Usually[when?] they are included as an Italic people by many[quantify] scholars.[who?] However other scholars[who?] argue[where?] that they could have been a transitional people between Celts and Italics, a Celticized Italic people or a Para-Celtic people.

* Carni? (may have been a Celtic tribe)
* Catali
* Catari
* Histri
* Iapydes
* Liburnians (Liburni)[4]
* Alutae (chief town: Aluus or Aloiis)
* Assesiates
* Buni
* Burnistae
* Caulici
* Curictae (on the island of Curicta, now Krk)
* Encheleae
* Fertinates
* Flanates (chief town: Flanona, which gave name to the Sinus Flanaticus)
* Hymani (or Ismeni)
* Hythmitae
* Lacinienses
* Lopsi (chief town: Lopsica, now Sveti Juraj)
* Mentores
* Olbonenses
* Peucetiae
* Stlupini
* Syopii
* Varvarini (chief town: Varvaria)
* Secusses
* Subocrini
* Veneti Proper
* Venetulani

## See also

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* Prehistoric Italy
* Italic peoples
* List of Roman tribes
* List of Roman gentes
* List of ancient peoples of Italy
* List of ancient Greek tribes

## References

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1. ^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.
2. ^ Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley, eds. (2017). The Peoples of Ancient Italy, P. 478.
3. ^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.
4. ^ Š. Batović, Liburnska kultura, Matica Hrvatska i Arheološki muzej Zadar, Zadar, 2005, UDK: 904 (398 Liburnija), ISBN 953-6419-50-5, pages 64-66

## Further reading

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* Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università, 1974
* Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Italia, omnium terrarum alumna, Officine grafiche Garzanti Milano, Garzanti-Schewiller, 1990
* Giacomo Devoto, Gli antichi Italici, 2a ed. Firenze, Vallecchi, 1951.
* Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley (edits.) (2018). The Peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
* Sabatino Moscati, Così nacque l'Italia: profili di popoli riscoperti, Società editrice internazionale, Torino 1998.
* Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. (1835). The History of Rome. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle
* Francisco Villar, Gli Indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997. ISBN 88-15-05708-0
* Vittore Pisani, Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.

## External links

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* [1] \- Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors

* [2] \- Strabo's work The Geography (Geographica). Books 5 and 6 are about Italy (each region has a chapter).

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