Following an original theory by Antoine Meillet, the Osco-Umbrian languages were traditionally considered a branch of the Italic languages, a language family that grouped Latin and Faliscan together with several other related … 展开

These languages were spoken in Samnium and in Campania, partly in Apulia, Lucania and Bruttium, as well as by the 展开

The Osco-Umbrian languages or dialects of which testimony is preserved are:
• Oscan, with spoken languages in the southern central region of the Italian peninsula, which includes:
• Umbrian, with languages spoken in the northern central region of … 展开

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The two main branches of the Sabellic languages, spoken in the heart of the Italian peninsula, are Oscan in the south and Umbrian to the north … 展开

Sabellic was originally the collective ethnonym of the Italic people who inhabited central and southern Italy at the time of Roman expansion. The name was later used by 展开

The Osco-Umbrian languages were fusional inflected languages with about 5 different morphological cases in the singular, similar to those of Latin.
Differences from Latin 展开