Pre-Samnite | |
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Native to | Italy |
Region | Campania |
Era | 6th–5th centuries BCE[ citation needed ] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | pres1240 |
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 times in an area that was later colonized by Samnites, who spoke Oscan. [1] Pre-Samnite is recorded in a few short inscriptions [1] dating from around 500 BC. [2] The language belongs to the Osco-Umbrian group of languages, and may be closely related to Oscan, but shows a number of archaic features which were lost from Oscan. [3] However, the material is too scant to enable a precise determination of the relation of Pre-Samnite either to Oscan or to the other Sabellian languages.
The following text is a proposed reconstruction of a Pre-Samnite inscription found in Tortora: [4]
"[πον/πονν]ει ι[ι]οϝιιοι
fεfικεδ [ε]κ[υ] ρε[κ]
[τ]ισυμαδ αματες
[ν]ε πυσμοι αυνοι ϝι[τλοι]
[ε]ντρο[σ]δ οσερϝια[τοδ]
[2]ενς [ν]ει ϙοβετι[ϝ]το α [h]ιρνενι[α]
[ν]οι ϝολαισυμος fυfϝοδ ο fρι
ϙτο[ς] αστ εσ[μ]ι τερμανι[ν]
[πραι]τοϝτιδ νεπ ιες
σ[ϝ]εδ ϝολος fυfυϝοδ
νεπ ιστα[κ] ιοσϙτοδ
αα [h]ιρνενια"
The proposed translation for this text reads: [4]
"Whenever one sacrificed (a yearling lamb) to Jovius, thus they very rightly decreed: no one shall observe this yearling lamb’s entrails by speaking; no one shall libate in the vase nor on the flawless roasted (entrails) by uttering words; and at this border sign before the city no one shall libate on these flawless (entrails) or pour broth on this vase."
Another proposed reconstruction of the Tortora inscriptions reads: [4]
[5]ειι[.]οϝιιοι…[--
--]fεfικεδ[.]κ[.]ρε.[--
--]ισυμαδαματεσ[--
--]επυσμοιαυνοιϝι[--
--]ντρο[.]δοσερϝια[--
[2]ενσ[.]ειϙοβετι[.]τοα[.]ιρνενι[
--]οιϝολαισυμοσfυfϝοδο(vacat)fρι[?]
ϙτο[..]αστεσ[.]ιτερμανι[--
--]τοϝτιδνεπιεσε[--
--]σ[.]εδϝολοσfυfυϝοδ
νεπιστα[.]ιοσϙτοδ[--
--]αα[.]ιρνενια
[4-5]νια[.]ε[.]ιι[?]υ[.]αμ[.]υουϝ[6-9]
Another Pre-Samnite inscription which was probably from Capua reads: [5]
niumsies tanunies est paplam tens atriiam fufuhud niumsis tanunis eises ulsu dunum dedum
The original text was written in scriptio continua and in the Oscan alphabet. [5]
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