oscan

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Of or pertaining to the Oscan language or Oscan people, or their writing system
A member of an ancient group of Italic-speaking peoples of Campania (the Osci)
The language of the Oscan people
Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy
an extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania
The language of the Osci
an extinct Italic language of ancient southern Italy
an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania

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Oscan language
Italic language formerly spoken in southern and central Italy, related closely to Umbrian and more distantly to Latin. It was probably the native tongue of the Samnite people of Italy's central mountainous region. Oscan was gradually displaced by Latin and apparently became extinct by the end of the 1st century AD. Modern knowledge of it comes from some 250 inscriptions written in a colonial Latin alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and an alphabet derived from that used for Etruscan
oscan-speaking
able to communicate in Oscan