Osco-Umbrian languages

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branch of Italic languages extinct language family

The Osco-Umbrian languages are an extinct branch of ancient Italic languages once spoken in central and southern Italy, including Oscan and Umbrian.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Umbrian language	11
Osco-Umbrian	1
Sabellic languages	1
Volscian language	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Italic languages ⓘ extinct language family ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Sabellic languages ⓘ
branchOf	Italic branch of Indo-European ⓘ
country	Italy ⓘ
distinctFrom	Celtic languages ⓘ Germanic languages ⓘ Latino-Faliscan languages ⓘ
evidence	epigraphic inscriptions ⓘ glosses in Latin and Greek sources ⓘ
extinct	true ⓘ
family	Indo-European language family ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Apennines ⓘ surface form: Apennine region Bruttium ⓘ Campania ⓘ Lucania ⓘ Picenum ⓘ Samnium ⓘ Umbria ⓘ
hasPart	Aequian language ⓘ Hernican language ⓘ Marrucinian language ⓘ Oscan language ⓘ Paelignian language ⓘ Sabellian languages ⓘ Sabine language ⓘ South Picene language ⓘ Osco-Umbrian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Umbrian language Sabine language ⓘ surface form: Vestinian language Osco-Umbrian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Volscian language
influenced	local toponyms in Italy ⓘ
influencedBy	Latin ⓘ surface form: Latin language
linguisticFeature	loss of final -s in Umbrian inscriptions ⓘ sound change of Indo-European *kʷ to p in some languages ⓘ use of -f- in future and conditional endings in Oscan ⓘ
partOf	ancient Italic linguistic landscape ⓘ
region	central Italy ⓘ Southern Italy ⓘ surface form: southern Italy
replacedBy	Latin ⓘ surface form: Latin language
studiedIn	Indo-European studies ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ
subclassOf	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Italic languages ⓘ
timePeriod	1st millennium BCE ⓘ early 1st millennium CE ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ Old Italic script ⓘ