The Latins (or Latini) were a people of ancient Italy who included the inhabitants of the early City of Rome. From ca. 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small part of the peninsula known to the Romans as Old Latium (Latium Vetus), that is, the region between the river Tiber and the promontory of Monte Circeo (ca. 60 mi or 100 km SE of Rome).

Latini probably simply means "people of Latium". It has been suggested that the name of their homeland, Latium, derives from the Latin word latus ("broad"), referring to the extensive plains of the region (in contrast to the mainly mountainous Italian peninsula).

The tribe spoke the Latin language, a member of the western branch of the Italic languages, in turn a branch of the Indo-European (IE) family of languages. Other members of the West Italic group are believed to have been Faliscan (now regarded as simply a Latin dialect),Venetic (in NE Italy) and Sicel, a language spoken in central Sicily. The West Italic languages were thus spoken in limited and isolated areas, whereas the "East Italic" group comprised the Oscan and Umbrian dialects spoken over much of central and southern Italy. Iron Age Italy also hosted non-IE languages, Etruscan and its apparent derivative, Raetian, as well as Ligurian. It is uncertain whether these languages were pre-IE survivals, or post-IE intrusions. Greek and Gallic were certainly later intrusions, introduced by migrations in the periods 800-600 BC and 600-400 BC respectively.

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