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Name:
Umbrian
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Umbrisch; umbrische
Code:
xum
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Umbrian (umbr)
Brief Description:
An ancient language of Central and Southern Italy. Mid-first millennium BC, surviving as late as the 1st century BC. It is the best know Italic language after Latin, since it is represented by the Tabulae Iguvinae, which is a very long text on seven bronze tablets written in the Etruscan-derived Umbrian script, found at modern Gubbio (Ancient Iguvium) north of Perugia. Apart from the tablets, only about 30 short Umbrian texts exist. Umbrian is also used as a subgroup name within Sabellic.
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Map of Umbrian
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