Faliscan | |
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Native to | ancient Italy |
Region | Southern Etruria (Northern Lazio) |
Extinct | about 150 BC[citation needed] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
Faliscan, Etruscan, and Latin alphabets | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xfa |
xfa | |
Glottolog | fali1291 |
Map of Italy showing where Faliscan was spoken | |
Faliscan is an Extinct language according to the criteria of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
The Faliscan language is the extinct Italic language of the ancient Falisci, who lived in Southern Etruria at Tiber Valley. Together with Latin, it formed the Latino-Faliscan languages group of the Italic languages. It seems probable that the language persisted, being gradually permeated with Latin, until at least 150 BC.[citation needed]