Old Italic refers to several now extinct alphabet systems used on the Italian Peninsula in ancient times for various Indo-European languages (predominantly Italic) 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.
Various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sebellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Venetic and Messapic) originally used the alphabet. Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.
The Germanic runic alphabet was most likely derived from one of these alphabets in about the 2nd century.[citation needed]
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Handwriting . Alphabet. Practice Activity Book - Standard . Italic. Font - This book focuses on "standard . italic. font" handwriting practice of every letter in the . alphabet. . Ea. ... Cutting pictures out of magazines, newspapers and . old. books, that begin with this particular sound : Say it and sound it If it has the same sound, cut it out and paste it on a separate sheet. I have included pages for cut and paste activities. Drawing pictures of objects that begin with this ...
