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Oscan was an ancient language spoken in southern Italy that eventually died out as Latin became dominant in the region. It matters to historians and linguists because surviving Oscan texts and inscriptions provide valuable evidence about the early peoples of Italy and how languages changed during the Roman period.
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Key facts
- Native to
- Samnium , Campania , Lucania , Calabria and Abruzzo
- Region
- south and south-central Italy
- Extinct
- >79 AD
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Osco-Umbrian (Sabellic) Oscan
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic
- Dialects
- Hernican Marrucinian Oscan proper Paelignian Vestinian ?
- Writing system
- Old Italic alphabet , Greek alphabet , later the Latin alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- osc
- Linguist list
- osc
- Glottolog
- osca1245
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Wikidata facts
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Article · Deutsch
Oskisch war die Sprache der Samniten; sie gehörte zum oskisch-umbrischen Zweig der italischen Sprachen, die wiederum ein Zweig des Indogermanischen sind.
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