North Picene

E14614

North Picene is an extinct, poorly understood ancient language once spoken in parts of the Italian Peninsula and known primarily from a small number of inscriptions.

Aliases (1)

Statements (38)
Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient language
extinct language
unclassified language
attestedIn Novilara inscriptions
Stele of Novilara
inscriptions
classificationStatus unclassified within Indo-European or non–Indo-European
distinctFrom Picene (general label)
South Picene
era 1st millennium BCE
Iron Age
evidenceType epigraphic
geographicDistribution area around Novilara in modern Marche, Italy
hasAlternativeName North Picene language
North Picenian
hasKnownGrammar false
hasKnownVocabulary very limited
hasLimitedCorpus true
hasUncertainAffiliation true
isDeciphered false
ISO639-3 nrp
isPoorlyAttested true
isRelatedTo unknown
isSubjectOf studies on ancient Italic epigraphy
studies on undeciphered languages
languageFamily unknown
numberOfAttestations very few inscriptions
region Picenum
researchedBy epigraphers
historical linguists
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy ancient Picene population in the north
spokenIn Italian Peninsula
ancient Italy
northern Adriatic region
status extinct
writingSystem Old Italic–type script
alphabetic script


Please wait…