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* '''Latino-Faliscan''' including:

** [[Faliscan]] - spoken in the area around Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana) north of the city of Rome

** [[Latin language|Latin]], originally spoken in west-central Italy - (SIL Code, '''LTN'''; ISO 639-1 code, '''la'''; ISO 639-2 code, '''lat''')

The Italic languages are first attested in writing from Latin inscriptions dating to the [[6th century BCE|6th]] or [[5th century BCE|5th]] centuries BCE. The alphabets used are based on the [[Etruscan_alphabet|Etruscan]] alphabet, which is itself based on the [[Greek alphabet]]. The Italic languages themselves show minor influence from the [[Etruscan_language|Etruscan]] and [[Greek_language|ancient Greek]] languages. As [[Roman_Republic|Rome]] extended its political dominion over the whole of the Italian peninsula, so too did Latin become dominant over the other Italic languages, which ceased to be spoken perhaps sometime in the [[1st century]] CE. From so-called [[Vulgar Latin]] the [[Romance languages]] emerged.