Pre-Samnite was an ancient language spoken in southern Campania, in Italy. The name Pre-Samnite refers to the fact that the language was spoken in early...

The Samnites (Oscan: Safineis) were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central...

Indo-European languages. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is the best understood of all proto-languages of its...

The Samnites were an ancient Italic people who lived in modern south-central Italy, placing them between the Latins to the north and the Greek settlements...

with languages spoken in the northern central region of the peninsula. Umbrian Marsian Sabine Volscian Hernican Picene-Pre-Samnite South Picene Pre-Samnite...

Oscan (Marrucinian, Paelignian, Vestinian), and Sabine (Samnite) Picene languages Pre-Samnite (6th–5th c. BC) South Picene (6th–4th c. BC) (?) Siculian...

Oscan language, they developed a distinctive culture and identity. Although partly of Samnite blood, they came to regard the mountain Samnites that surrounded...

name of a certain Volnio who wrote tragedies in the Etruscan language. Even the Samnites had original representational forms that had a lot of influence...

most certainly neither Greek nor belonging to some other Italic or pre-Italic language)." ΝΕΝΔΑΣ Π̣Υ̣[----]Σ ΤΕΒΕΓ ΠΡΑΑΡΕΙ ΕΝ ΒΟ[.]ΡΕΝΑΙ ϜΙΔΕ ΠΑΓΟΣΤΙΚΕ...

west of the plain, were strongly held by the Hirpini, an Oscan-speaking Samnite tribe. Central Iapygia was composed of the Murge Plateau (686 m), an area...