North Picene language

E99848

The North Picene language is an extinct and largely undeciphered ancient language once spoken in the Picenum region of eastern Italy, known primarily from a small number of inscriptions.


Statements (38)
Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient language
extinct language
undeciphered language
alternativeName North Picene
associatedPeople Picenes
attestedBy inscriptions
continent Europe
countryInAntiquity Italy
culturalContext pre-Roman Italy
degreeOfDecipherment largely undeciphered
distinctFrom Picene (umbrella term for other local languages)
South Picene language
documentationLevel very limited
era 1st millennium BCE
evidenceType epigraphic
geneticClassification unknown
geographicContext ancient Picenum region
hasProposedRelation Illyrian language
surface form: "Illyrian (hypothetical)"

Italic languages (hypothetical)
non-Indo-European substrate (hypothetical)
hasUncertainGrammar true
hasUncertainVocabulary true
ISO639Status no ISO 639-3 code
isUndeciphered true
knownFrom Novilara inscriptions
languageFamily unclassified
numberOfKnownInscriptions few
possiblyExtinctBy Roman Republic
surface form: "Roman Republican period"
primaryCorpusLocation Novilara
region Adriatic coast of central Italy
researchField epigraphy
historical linguistics
scriptFamily Old Italic script
surface form: "Old Italic scripts"
spokenInPastIn Picenum
eastern Italy
status extinct
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystem Old Italic script

Referenced by (3)

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

North Picene hasAlternativeName North Picene language
Stele of Novilara inscriptionLanguage North Picene language
South Picene language relatedTo North Picene language

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