| South Picene Language |
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| picene, south | |
| extinct languages of italy | |
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South Picene texts were first translated in 1985 ; they are written in an unusual version of the Italic Alphabet that includes several characters not found in other texts. Since then, South Picene has been identified as a Sabellic language that is neither Oscan nor Umbrian . The writers of South Picene were identified with the historically known tribe of the Sabini , the northern neighbors of the Romans, because of their self-identification as ''Safinos''. About 50 South Picene inscriptions are known; they were mostly found in Picenum and were created in the 6th through 4th centuries BC. Some South Picene texts were found in Campania , Lucania , and Bruttium ; also in Cures , the capital of the Sabini. REFERENCES
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