Sicel
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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.
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- 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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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.
== Classification == Ancient sources state that Siculians entered Sicily from the Italian Peninsula either around the 13th century or the middle of the 11th century BCE (or in two waves), driving the prior inhabitants, the Sicanians and Elymians, to the west of the island.