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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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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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suggest their totemic animal to be the calf (Latin: vitulus; Umbrian: vitlo;
Oscan: Víteliú).
Several ancient authors said it was
named after a
local ruler...
- 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...
- Aurunci. It is
possible the
Ausonians may have also been
identical with the
Oscans (Opicans), as they were
occasionally referred to by the same name. Aristotle...
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languages from
their roots in
Vulgar Latin. It may
reflect a pre-Latin
Oscan substratum, as in the
pronunciation of the d
sound as an r
sound (rhotacism)...
- they were
probably not as
technologically or
culturally advanced as the
Oscans, and any who
still flourished had
become fully Oscanised by the
middle of...
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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,...
