This article is about the ancient language. For the modern Italian dialect, see Central Italian.
Umbrian
Native to
Umbria
Region
central Italy
Ethnicity
Umbri
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Osco-Umbrian
Umbrian
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Italic
Writing system
Umbrian and Old Italic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xum
Linguist List
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Glottolog
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Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy
Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. Within the Italic languages it is closely related to the Oscan group and is therefore associated with it in the group of Osco-Umbrian languages, a term generally replaced by Sabellic in modern scholarship. Since that classification was first formulated, a number of other languages in ancient Italy were discovered to be more closely related to Umbrian. Therefore, a group, the Umbrian languages, was devised to contain them.
Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. Within the Italic languages it is closely...
extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy. The language is in the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic branch of the Italic languages. Oscan is therefore a...
Adriatic. The ancient Umbrianlanguage is a branch of a group called Oscan-Umbrian, which is related to the Latino-Faliscan languages. They are also called...
ancient Italic languages are Faliscan (the closest to Latin), Umbrian and Oscan (or Osco-Umbrian), and South Picene. Other Indo-European languages once spoken...
in the word zinqui (five). This is shown in other languages, like Old Ligurian seti and Old Umbrian nuovi. Old Lombard also doesn't have obligatory enclisis...
in modified form after the language disappeared. In addition to being the source of the Roman and early Oscan and Umbrian alphabets, it has been suggested...
Volscian was a Sabellic Italic language, which was spoken by the Volsci and closely related to Oscan and Umbrian. Volscian is attested in an inscription...
scholars consider Venetic plainly an Italic language, more closely related to the Osco-Umbrianlanguages than to Latin, many authorities suggest, in view...
remain. It may represent a third branch of Sabellic, along with Oscan and Umbrian (and their dialects), or the whole Sabellic linguistic area may be best...
Castrum appears in Oscan and Umbrian, two other Italic languages, suggesting an origin at least as old as Proto-Italic language. Julius Pokorny traces a probable...
witchcraft. Marsus (disambiguation), Latinisation of the name Marsi Umbrianlanguage For the phonetic transcription from Oscan to Latin alphabet see, for...
transcription delimiters. The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar...
Vestinian is an extinct Italic language documented only in two surviving inscriptions of the Roman Republic. It is presumed to have been anciently spoken...
came into conflict in the Second Samnite War, 325 BC. Like other Oscan-Umbrian populations, they were governed by supreme magistrates known as meddixes...
language family concept. It has been asserted, for example, that many of the more striking features shared by Italic languages (Latin, Oscan, Umbrian...
in Lydian, Neo-Etruscan and in Italic alphabets of Osco-Umbrianlanguages such as Oscan, Umbrian, Old Sabine and South Picene (Old Volscian). This sign...
Paeligni). A few inscriptions in the Marrucinian language survive. They indicate that the language was a member of the Sabellian group, probably closely...
local characteristic. A couple of inscriptions show that the Hernican language was a member of the Sabellian group. Their name, with its "co" termination...
is also a synonym for the whole, or only a part, of the different Osco-Umbrian peoples and it is supposed it had effectively been their ethnic endonym...
⟨Q⟩) (in the so-called P-Celtic languages /kʷ/ developed into /p/; a similar development took place in the Osco-Umbrian branch of Italic and sometimes...
tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in the Umbrianlanguage. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC – it kept its name...
Gubbio), Italy, written in the ancient Italic languageUmbrian. The earliest tablets, written in the native Umbrian alphabet, were probably produced in the...