Talk:List of ancient Italic peoples

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Klbrain in topic Merge discussion

Missing tribes

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Shouldn't the Caeninenses, Crustumini, Antemnates and Sabines also be part of this list? Echo 48 (talk) 15:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

This article is badly conceived

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First, this article should be retitled as "List of historic pre-Roman peoples of Italy", since it reflects only those nations and tribes attested between ~800 BCE and ~200 BCE. The peninsula has been inhabited by humans at least since 120,000 BCE, and by farmers/shepherds at least since 7000 BCE; so there is a "little" gap in its coverage of "ancient peoples".

Second, there is no reason to limit the coverage to peoples speaking the "Italic" branch of Indo-European languages, or even to speakers of Indo-European languages. Besides that purely linguistic questonable classification (it is still disputed whether those languages were a single branch or several), there are no other features (biological, cultural, social, political, religious, ...) that would unifiy those "Italic" peoples and set them apart from the "non-Italic" ones.

Merge discussion

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To not merge on the grounds of independent notability. Klbrain (talk) 13:52, 15 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Proposal

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The list in this article is merely a subset of the List of ancient peoples of Italy. There is no advantage in having a separate list just for those nations/tribes/ethnic groups who are believed to have spoken "Italic" languages. If nothing else, because the classification of several languages are not known, and the "Italic branch" itself may be a fiction without real linguistic substance. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:20, 9 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Discussion

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Yea. In terms of consolidation, this article should be merged. Someone please mark it to be merged. -JS

  • "Ethnolinguistic group" does not mean merely "a bunch of people who speak related languages". The people must ALSO be an an ethnic group. There is no evidence that the "Italic peoples" were an ethnic group. On the contrary, we know from the historic sources that they were divided into tribes that often went to war against each other.
    And the view that the "Italic languages" may be two branches of IE that split outside Italy is neither my own "original research" nor "fringe theory". Check the modern sources; that is where I got the idea from.
    --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 10:25, 21 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Which sources say that the "Italic languages" may be two branches of IE that split outside Italy? And how does that make the "Italic branch" itself [...] a fiction without real linguistic substance? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 11:05, 21 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • Check the modern linguists. They talk of two separate branches, maybe more (e.g. Venetic). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jorge Stolfi (talkcontribs) 21 May 2019 (UTC)
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