
280px|right|thumb|The Oscan language in the 5th century BC. The Lucanians () were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke the Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages. Today, the inhabitants of the Basilicata region are still called Lucani, and so is their dialect.
280px|right|thumb|The Oscan language in the 5th century BC. The Lucanians () were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke the Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages. Today, the inhabitants of the Basilicata region are still called Lucani, and so is their dialect.
==Language and writing== thumb|A Gold coin from Lucania dated between 620 and 294 BC The Lucani spoke the Oscan language. There are a few inscriptions and coins in the area that survive from the 4th or 3rd century BC; they use the Greek alphabet.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).