Siculian

E106705

Siculian is an ancient Indo-European language once spoken by the Sicels in eastern Sicily.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Paleo-Sicilian languages 1
Siculian canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
ancient language
extinct language
associatedPeople Sicels
associatedWith pre-Roman Italy
attestedIn glosses
inscriptions
toponyms
belongsTo Siculian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Paleo-Sicilian languages

ancient languages of Italy
coexistedWith Ancient Greek in Sicily
Elymian
Sicani language
culturalContext Sicel culture
pre-Greek Sicily
documentationLevel fragmentary
endonymExonymStatus exonym
evidenceType ancient literary references
epigraphic evidence
onomastic evidence
extinctionStatus extinct
geographicContext Val di Noto
surface form: eastern Sicily
hasISO639Code none
hasNameOrigin Sicels
hasUncertainClassification true
influencedBy Ancient Greek
languageCodeStatus unstandardized
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageStatus poorly attested
modernLocation Italy
Sicily
neighboringLanguages Greek
Latin
Sicel
possibleBranch Italic languages
separate Indo-European branch
region Mediterranean Basin
surface form: Mediterranean
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Sicels
spokenIn Sicily
Val di Noto
surface form: eastern Sicily
studiedInDiscipline Indo-European studies
classical philology
historical linguistics
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
Orientalizing period
surface form: Archaic period
writingSystem Greek alphabet
Latin alphabet

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sicel hasAlternativeName Siculian
Siculian belongsTo Siculian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Paleo-Sicilian languages