PER UNA STORIA DEI NOMI DELLE LINGUE ROMANZE IN ITALIANO
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
Year: 2025

For a History of the Names of Romance Languages in Italian. The study presents the names that the main Romance languages have had in the history of Italian, in order to examine how and when the different idioms derived from Latin were perceived, identified, and named. Particular attention will be given to the glottonyms referring to the peoples who inhabited the various regions before the Latinization. At the end of the essay, the various terms used over time to refer to Italian will be proposed