Lucanians
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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.
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Vinony files it under Ancient peoples of Southern Italy, Lucania and Osci.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Italic peoples
- Participant in
- Pyrrhic War
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- time period
- classical antiquity
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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.
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