The evolution of languages ​​is constant although minor and major changes are usually not apparent unless you look at the bigger picture over a long period of time. In the process vocabulary is lost, pronunciation and syntax are changed, and more vocabulary is added. Any language in the world has evolved from another, and most of these protolanguages ​​have suffered extinction. The Indo-European macrofamily witnessed this evolution and gave rise to smaller microfamilies, each derived from a common ancestor. Proto-Indo-European, where 'proto' stands for a language reconstructed on the basis of later evidence, gave rise to the Indo-European branch of the linguistic tree, which in turn was divided into ten different microfamilies including Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Balto-Slavic, Balkan, Hellenic, Anatolian, Armenian, Indo-Iranian and Tocharian (Slocum). Furthermore, each of these families is broken up based on their shared common language. The purpose of this article is to discuss the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, which is further divided into Latin-Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, and Romance. Italic languages, as the name suggests, originate from ancient Indo- European languages ​​spoken in Italy. The most important of these languages ​​is Latin, which gave rise to many of the Italic languages ​​that survived into the modern age. Latin began as a local language among others and was not expected to dominate among sister languages ​​(Fortson 245). It was originally spoken among a tribe that worked in agricultural settlements called Latini, whose origins were in a region called Lazio. Lazio was located on the west coast and extended to the center... the center of the map... language. The earliest form of French was called Old French and lasted until the 15th century. Modern French developed from the dominant dialect in the 12th and 13th centuries in central France, around Paris. Norman French, located in northern France, spread to England in the 11th century and became known as Anglo-Norman as it developed in England, but English eventually dominated and wiped it out. Occitan was spoken in the South and developed greatly during the Middle Ages until the North overwhelmed it in the early 13th century. Occitan is still found in southern France today (Fortson 258). SpanishWorks cited "Faliscan language". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online academic edition. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 18 November. 2013. .