Siculian

Siculian
Sicel
RegionSicily
EthnicitySicels
Eraattested late 6th century to 4th century BCE[1][2]
Greek alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3scx
scx
Glottologsicu1234
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy

Siculian (or Sicel) is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in central and eastern Sicily by the Sicels. It is attested in fewer than thirty inscriptions from the late 6th century to 4th century BCE, and in around twenty-five glosses from ancient writers.[1]

  1. ^ a b Hartmann 2017, p. 1854.
  2. ^ Siculian at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  3. ^ Giacomo Devoto (1951). Gli antichi Italici (second ed.). Florence: Vallecchi. p. 68.