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Oscan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oscan , extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages .
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Italic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one...about 1000 BC and that the speakers of Oscan and Umbrian probably arrived somewhat later...Rome, was superseded by Latin in time. Oscan was spoken in central and S Italy and NE...
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Sabelli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sabelli , people of ancient Italy who spoke Oscan. They were a loose group and seemed to have had little or no political unity. Oscan-speaking tribes expanded over central Italy, and by the 5th cent. BC they seem to have taken ancient Campania...
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Samnites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ancient Italy. Their country was Samnium . The Samnites were Oscan-speaking and therefore should be included among the Sabelli...bronze tablet that carries an inscription engraved in the full Oscan alphabet, is an important record of the language. The loose...
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Carl Darling Buck
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Carl Darling Buck 1866-1955, American philologist, b. Orlando, Maine. Buck taught at the Univ. of Chicago from 1892 to 1933. His Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian (1904) is still authoritative.
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Roman Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...with the secular entertainments of other Italian peoples—the phlyax comedies of Tarentum, for instance, and the Oscan fabula atellana , which were not unlike the comedy of mainland Greece. Although mime may well have been international from...
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Pompeii
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pompeii , ancient city of S Italy, a port near Naples and at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius. Possibly an old Oscan settlement, it was a Samnite city for centuries before it passed under Roman rule at the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (1st...
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The Indo-European Family of Languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Iranian Kurdish, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) , Parthian , Persian (Farsi), Tajiki Italic (Non-Romance) Faliscan , Latin , Oscan , Umbrian Romance or Romanic Eastern Romance Italian , Rhaeto-Romanic , Romanian , Sardinian Western Romance Catalan , French...
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Quintus Ennius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Romans as the father of Latin poetry, b. Calabria. His birthplace was the meeting point of three civilizations—Oscan, Greek, and Latin—and Ennius learned to speak the languages of these cultures. He served in Sardinia under Cato...
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Atellan Fables
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...stage with stock characters (the foolish old man, the rogue, the clown), and seem to have been the earliest form of drama to flourish in ancient Rome. It was imported from Campania where Oscan, a language akin to Latin, was spoken.
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