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Italic

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Italic
a) Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.

The ancient Italic languages that are now extinct include , , and .

b) Pertaining to a subfamily of the branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy and also the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, etc.); the group of ancient languages of this branch as contrasted with the modern Romance languages;

There were several Italic alphabets, one being the Etruscan alphabet.

2. noun
An Italic language.

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