Sikulca
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Siculian (or Sicel) is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in central and eastern Sicily by the Sicels. It is attested in fewer than thirty inscriptions in eastern Sicily from the late 6th century to 4th century BCE, and in around twenty-five glosses from ancient writers.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Siculian
- Language.altname
- Sicel
- Language.region
- Sicily
- Language.era
- attested late 6th century to 4th century BCE
- Language.ref
- linglist
- Language.ethnicity
- Sicels
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Italic (?)
- Language.script
- Greek alphabet
- Language.map
- Iron Age Italy.svg
- Language.mapcaption
- Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy
- Language.iso3
- scx
- Language.linglist
- scx
- Language.glotto
- sicu1234
- Language.glottorefname
- Sicula
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ancient language
- Subclass of
- Indo-European
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- indigenous to
- Sicily
- writing system
- Greek alphabet
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