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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
- Instance of
- ancient language
- Subclass of
- Osco-Umbrian
- Image
- Denarius-Marsic Federation-Syd 627-1-.jpg
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- Commons category
- Oscan inscriptions
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- writing system
- Old Italic
- topic's main category
- Category:Oscan language
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Oskiska, oskernas språk, tillhör den sabelliska språkgruppen av de italiska språken. Oskiska finns belagd i skrift från 500-talet f.Kr. och talades i de dåtida områdena Samnium, Kampanien, Lucania och Abruzzo. De oskiska stammarna behöll sitt språk fram till bundsförvantskriget 91–88 f.Kr. Kriget slutade med att oskerna fick romerskt medborgarskap och oskiskan började ge vika för latinet.
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