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Preferred term

xaeAequian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Aequian is an extinct language presumed spoken by the people the Romans termed Aequi and Aequicoli living in the Alban hills of northeast Latium and the central Apennines east of them during the early and middle Roman Republic; that is, approximately from the 5th to the 3rd century BC, when they were defeated by the armies of Rome and were subsequently Romanized. As the area was heavily colonized by Latin speakers from Rome, most of the inscriptions from there are in Latin. Two undated inscriptions appear to be in a different dialect, termed Aequian by the scholars with the presumption that in fact they represent the language of the entire pre-Roman tribe. Not enough text survives to deduce any more than that it belonged to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Entry terms

  • Aequian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xae

Notation

  • xae

In other languages

  • Idioma ecuo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xae

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