Umbrian language
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- This article is about the ancient language. For the modern Italian dialect, see Umbrian language (Romance).
| Umbrian | ||
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| Spoken in: | Umbria, Italy | |
| Language extinction: | ? | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Osco-Umbrian Umbrian |
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| Writing system: | Old Italic alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ine | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | xum | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. Its speakers were known as the Umbri.
Umbrian is known from about 30 inscriptions. The by far largest one of them is called the Tabulae Iguvinae (Iguvium = modern Gubbio), seven bronze plates which contain some notes on the ceremonies and statutes for priests. These are written in the Old Italic alphabet. The inscriptions are dated from the 7th through 1st centuries BC.
Currently, the term is used to indicate a regional dialect of the Italian language.
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