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Oscan, the language of the Osci , is in the Sabellic branch of the Italic Language Family , which is a branch of Indo-European and includes Umbrian , Latin and Faliscan . It was spoken in Samnium and in Campania , as well as in Lucania and Abruzzo . Oscan is known from Inscription s beginning in the 5th Century BC . The most important Oscan inscriptions are the Tabula Bantina and the Cippus Abellanus . Oscan was written in the Latin and Greek Alphabet s, as well as in a variety of the Old Italic Alphabet . Dialects of Oscan include Samnite, Marrucine, Paelignan, Vestinian, Sabine, and Marsian.
In Phonology Oscan also showed differences from Latin: Oscan 'p' in place of Latin 'qu' (Osc. ''pis'', Lat. ''quis''); 'b' in place of Latin 'v'; medial 'f' in contrast to Latin 'b' or 'd' (Osc. ''mefiai'', Lat. ''mediae''). Considered the most conservative of all the known Italic languages, Oscan is rivaled only by Greek in the retention of the inherited vowel system with the Diphthongs intact. Example of an Oscan text (the Cippus Abellanus): herekleís fíísnam amfr et, pert víam pússtíst paí íp íst, pústin slagím senateís suveís tangi núd tríbarakavúm lí kítud. íním íúk tríba rakkiuf pam núvlanús tríbarakattuset íúk trí barakkiuf íním úíttiuf abellanúm estud. avt púst feíhúís pús físnam am fret, eíseí tereí nep abel lanús nep núvlanús pídum tríbarakattíns. avt the savrúm púd eseí tereí íst, REFERENCES
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