Sabines
There is little record of the Sabine language; however, there are some
glosses by ancient commentators, and one or two inscriptions have been tentatively identified as Sabine. There are also personal names in use on Latin inscriptions from the Sabine country, but these are given in Latin form.
Robert Seymour Conway, in his ''Italic Dialects'', gives approximately 100 words which vary from being well-attested as Sabine to being possibly of Sabine origin. In addition to these he cites place names derived from the Sabine, sometimes giving attempts at reconstructions of the Sabine form. Based on all the evidence, the
Linguist List tentatively classifies Sabine as a member of the
Umbrian group of
Italic languages of the
Indo-European family, while
Glottolog classifies it as an Old Sabellic dialect alongside
South Picene and
Pre-Samnite.
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