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n. - A group of languages of ancient Italy.

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  • When I say this in your quote, I'm simply suggesting that an Osco-Umbrian version of the name would provide a more direct source than Latin.
  • One of his online articles deals with Etruscan grammar pdf which is natural considering that Etruscan studies overlap with Osco-Umbrian studies.
  • In the historical period the Apennines were inhabited by Sabellian peoples who spoke a variety of Osco-Umbrian languages and who periodically raided and sometimes...
  • The wide diffusion of Indo-European tongues—Latin, Osco-Umbrian, Venetic, and Messapian—spoken in Italy at the beginning of the historical period, together with the...
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