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Oscan is an
extinct Indo-European
language of
southern Italy. The
language is in the Osco-Umbrian or
Sabellic branch of the
Italic languages.
Oscan is...
- prin****lly of
Oscan and Umbrian, but
there are also some Osco-Umbrian
loanwords in Latin.
Besides the two
major branches of
Oscan and
Umbrian (and...
- comedies"), also
known as the
Oscan Games (Latin: ludi Osci, "
Oscan plays"), were
masked improvised farces in
Ancient Rome. The
Oscan athletic games were very...
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including Oscan, Umbrian, and
South Picene, and
other Indo-European
branches such as Venetic)
originally used the alphabet. Faliscan,
Oscan, Umbrian,...
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called Oscans, Opici, Opsci, Obsci, Opicans) were an
Italic people of
Campania and
Latium adiectum before and
during Roman times. They
spoke the
Oscan language...
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region of Umbria.
Within the
Italic languages it is
closely related to the
Oscan group and is
therefore ****ociated with it in the
group of Osco-Umbrian languages...
- from
Latin and
Oscan. It is
disputed whether some of the
praenomina used by the
Romans themselves were of
distinctly Etruscan or
Oscan origin. However...
- The
Oscan Tablet (Latin
Tabula Osca) or
Agnone Tablet is a
bronze inscription written in the
Oscan alphabet that
dates to the 3rd
century BC. It was found...
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endonyms and of the po****tion was the
Oscan language. However, not all the
Samnites spoke Oscan, and not all the
Oscan-speakers
lived in Samnium. Ancient...
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ancient Italic languages are
Faliscan (the
closest to Latin),
Umbrian and
Oscan (or Osco-Umbrian), and
South Picene.
Other Indo-European
languages once...
