OSCO-UMBRIAN LANGUAGES

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Languages in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC

The 'Osco-Umbrian languages' or 'Sabellic languages' are a group of languages that belong to the Italic language family of the Indo-European languages. They were spoken in central and southern Italy before Latin replaced them as the power of the Romans expanded. Quantities of text in Osco-Umbrian have survived.
The following languages belong to this group: languages of the Umbrian group (the Umbrian language, the Aequian language, the Volscian language, the Prestonian language), and the Marsian language), the Oscan language, and the South Picene language.

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Sabellic was the name originally given by Theodor Mommsen in his ''Unteritalische Dialekte'' to the pre-Roman dialects of Central Italy which were neither Oscan nor Umbrian. Since then, the name has fallen out of use; nowadays, it is used again to describe the Osco-Umbrian languages as a whole. The North Picene language was considered Sabellic; it is now believed to be a non-Indo-European language.

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