The Italic branch of
the Indo-European family of languages

The Italic languages, spoken originally in central Italy, and constituting a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, include:

• Osco-Umbrian, extinguished by the expansion of the Roman empire.
  
  
• Samnite, extinguished by the expansion of the Roman empire.
  
  
• Latin, the language of Latium and of its capital, Rome, and the mother of the the Romance languages:
  
  
  • Western Romance
    • Sardinian, which is spoken in central and southern Sardinia.
    • northern Italian
    • Rhaeto-Romance (Rumansch)
    • Provençal
    • Catalan
    • Spanish
    • Portuguese
    • French
    • (Afro-French) Haitian Creole
    
    
  • Eastern Romance
    • central and southern Italian
    • Dalmatian, which became extinct in CE 1898.
    • Rumanian (formerly called Romanian)
    
    
  • (Italo-Hispanic) Lunfardo in Argentina.

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