Sabine language

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The Sabine language was an extinct Italic tongue once spoken by the ancient Sabine people of central Italy, closely related to other Osco-Umbrian languages.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Vestinian language 1

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Italic language
Osco-Umbrian language
extinct language
associatedEthnicity Sabine people
attestedIn glosses
inscriptions
branchOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
closelyRelatedTo Oscan language
Osco-Umbrian languages
surface form: Umbrian language
coexistedWith Latin
surface form: Latin language
country Italy
era ancient Italy
extinctionStatus extinct
geographicContext Apennines
surface form: Apennine Mountains
hasGlottocode sabi1253
hasGlottologName Sabine
hasISO6393Code sbv
influencedBy Latin language
languageFamily Italic languages
linguisticTypology inflected language
partOf Osco-Umbrian branch of Italic
reconstructedFrom inscriptions and onomastics
region Latium
Sabinum
spokenBy Sabines
spokenDuring Roman Kingdom period
early Roman Republic
spokenIn central Italy
statusInCorpus poorly attested
subfamily Osco-Umbrian languages
surface form: Osco-Umbrian
usedFor personal names
place names
religious formulae
writingSystem Latin alphabet

Referenced by (3)

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

Osco-Umbrian languages hasPart Sabine language
Osco-Umbrian languages hasPart Sabine language
this entity surface form: Vestinian language
Sabellian hasPart Sabine language