Langenesis

Indo-European family

Old Latin

c. 700 BCE – 100 BCE Extinct

Old Latin (c. 700 BCE – 100 BCE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 40 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → Proto-Latino-Faliscan → Old Latin.

See Old Latin on the interactive map

Archaic Latin from the earliest inscriptions (Lapis Niger, Duenos inscription) to the start of the Classical period. Earliest dating of some inscriptions (e.g. the Praeneste fibula) is contested.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
  3. Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  4. Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Latino-Faliscan.

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