Old Italic script

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Old Italic script is an ancient family of writing systems used on the Italian peninsula, from which the Latin alphabet ultimately evolved.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabetic script
ancient script
writing system family
ancestorOf Latin alphabet
derivedFrom Phoenician alphabet
hasCategory Brahmic and alphabetic scripts comparison target
hasDistinctiveFeature no standardized orthography across all Italic peoples
varied letter shapes among regional alphabets
hasGlyphRepertoireSize approximately 26 letters (varies by alphabet)
hasISO15924Code Ital
includes Old Italic script self-linksurface differs
surface form: Etruscan alphabet

Old Italic script self-linksurface differs
surface form: Faliscan alphabet

Lepontic alphabet
North Picene alphabet
Oscan alphabet
Paleo-Latin alphabet
Raetic alphabet
South Picene alphabet
Old Italic script self-linksurface differs
surface form: Umbrian alphabet

Venetic alphabet
influenced Runic alphabet
region ancient Italy
scriptType consonant-vowel alphabet
subclassOf Italic scripts
timeOfUseEnd c. 1st century BCE
timeOfUseStart c. 8th century BCE
unicodeBlock Old Italic script self-linksurface differs
surface form: Old Italic
unicodeRange U+10300–U+1032F
usedForLanguage Etruscan language
Faliscan language
Lepontic language
Oscan language
Latin
surface form: Paleo-Latin

Raetic language
Umbrian language
Venetic language
usedForLanguageFamily Italic languages
usedIn Italian Peninsula
usedInPeriod 1st millennium BCE
writingDirection right-to-left
writingDirectionVariants right-to-left and boustrophedon in some inscriptions
writingMedium ceramic inscriptions
metal inscriptions
stone inscriptions

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

Euboean Greek alphabet influenced Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
Faliscan alphabet scriptFamily Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
Picentes writingSystem Old Italic script
Vestinian language writingSystem Old Italic script
Este alphabet scriptFamily Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
South Picene inscriptions writingSystem Old Italic script
South Picene inscriptions scriptFamily Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
Sudpiceno writingSystem Old Italic script
Sudpiceno hasScriptFamily Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
Iguvine Tablets writingSystemFamily Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
Picene language writingSystem Old Italic script
Paelignian writingSystem Old Italic script
Sabellic writingSystem Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
North Picene inscriptions scriptFamily Old Italic script
this entity surface form: Old Italic scripts
Picenes writingSystem Old Italic script