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The Apennine culture was in this theory always practiced mainly by speakers of unknown languages in the Italic branch of Indo-European, from which the historical languages later came.

The term " Proto-Italic ", in Pallottino's view, is less useful because there was no single proto-language in Italy.

Such a language would have existed on the other side of the Adriatic ( Illyria ) in the Neolithic.

The way of life of the population in the Apennine range also is consistent with an etymology of Italia as " land of young cattle " ( see under Italy ).