{"title":"Ongunkan South Picene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSouth Picene\u003c\/strong\u003e (also known as Paleo-Sabellic, Mid-Adriatic or Eastern Italic) is an extinct \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italic_language\"\u003eItalic language\u003c\/a\u003e belonging to the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osco-Umbrian_languages\"\u003eSabellic\u003c\/a\u003e subfamily. It is apparently unrelated to the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Picene_language\"\u003eNorth Picene language\u003c\/a\u003e, which is not understood and therefore unclassified. South Picene texts were at first relatively inscrutable even though some words were clearly \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indo-European_languages\"\u003eIndo-European\u003c\/a\u003e. The discovery in 1983 that two of the apparently redundant punctuation marks were in reality simplified letters led to an incremental improvement in their understanding and a first translation in 1985. Difficulties remain. It may represent a third branch of Sabellic, along with Oscan and Umbrian (and their dialects), or the whole Sabellic linguistic area may be best regarded as a \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linguistic_continuum\"\u003elinguistic continuum\u003c\/a\u003e. The paucity of evidence from most of the 'minor dialects' contributes to these difficulties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe corpus of South Picene \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inscriptions\"\u003einscriptions\u003c\/a\u003e consists of 23 inscriptions on stone or bronze dating from as early as the 6th century BC to as late as the 4th century BC. The dating is estimated according to the features of the letters and in some cases the archaeological context. As the known history of the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Picentes\"\u003ePicentes\u003c\/a\u003e does not begin until their subjugation by Rome in the 3rd century, the inscriptions open an earlier window onto their culture as far back as the late \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Kingdom\"\u003eRoman Kingdom\u003c\/a\u003e. Most are \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stele\"\u003estelai\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cippus\"\u003ecippi\u003c\/a\u003e of sandstone or limestone in whole or fragmentary condition sculpted for funerary contexts, but some are monumental statues.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/de\/collections\/ongunkan-south-picene-font-runic-world-tamgac.oembed","provider":"MyFonts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}