Italic
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- Anything of, or relating to the Italian peninsula
- Ancient Italic peoples Ancient peoples of Italy are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Roman domination. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnically closely related. Some of them spoke Italic languages, others spoke Greek because of the arrival of Hellenic colonists, while others belonged to another Indo-European branch or were non-, Italic-language speaking people of ancient Italy
- Italic languages extinct: Anatolian · Paleo-Balkans (Dacian, , an Indo-European language family
- Italic script, a method of handwriting
- Italic type In typography, italic type is a cursive typeface based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, such typefaces often slant slightly to the right. Different glyph shapes from roman type are also usually used—another influence from calligraphy. It is distinct therefore from oblique type, in which the, used in typography mainly for emphasis
- Old Italic alphabet Old Italic refers to several now extinct alphabet systems used on the Italian Peninsula in ancient times for various Indo-European languages and non-Indo-European (e.g. Etruscan) languages. The alphabets derive from the Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC, an alphabet of ancient Italy
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