South Picene language

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The South Picene language is an extinct Italic language once spoken in central Italy, known primarily from a small corpus of archaic inscriptions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italic language
ancient language
extinct language
attested 5th century BCE
6th century BCE
chronology pre-Roman Italy
country Italy
documentation short inscriptions
era 1st millennium BCE
evidence epigraphic
extinctionCause language shift to Latin
geographicDistribution Adriatic side of central Italy
hasAlternativeName South Picenian
Sudpiceno
hasCorpusSize small corpus
hasFeature archaic phonology
distinctive morphology
use of Old Italic letter forms
hasGlottocode sout3110
hasWriting South Picene inscriptions
inscriptionMaterial funerary monuments
stone
inscriptionType funerary inscriptions
votive inscriptions
ISO639-3 spx
languageBranch Sabellic languages
surface form: Sabellian languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Italic languages
regionType ancient Italic region
relatedTo Latin
surface form: Latin language

North Picene language
Oscan language
Osco-Umbrian languages
surface form: Umbrian language
scriptDirection right-to-left
spokenIn Picenum
Central Italy
surface form: central Italy

Abruzzo
surface form: northern Abruzzo

southern Marche
status extinct
studiedIn Indo-European studies
epigraphy
historical linguistics
subclassOf Indo-European language
Sabellian language
usedBy South Picene
surface form: South Picenes
writingSystem Old Italic script
writingSystemFamily Old Italic script
surface form: Old Italic alphabets

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

North Picene language distinctFrom South Picene language
Osco-Umbrian languages hasPart South Picene language
Sabellic languages hasPart South Picene language
South Picene people language South Picene language
Italic peoples spoke South Picene language
South Picene alphabet writingSystemOf South Picene language