Languages in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC

Umbrian, an Italic language, is a dead language formerly spoken in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. Its speakers were known as the Umbri. Image File history File links Iron_Age_Italy. ... Image File history File links Iron_Age_Italy. ... The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family. ... The Roman region of Umbria, Regio VI Umbria, was one of the fourteen regions into which Augustus divided Italy; it is named after a proto-Italic people, the Umbri, who were gradually subjected by the Romans in the 4th through the 2d centuries BC. Although it passed the name on... The Umbri, also called Umbrians in English, were an ancient Italic tribe. ...

Umbrian is known from about 30 inscriptions. The by far largest one of them is called the Tabulae Iguvinae (Iguvium = modern Gubbio), seven bronze plates which contain some notes on the ceremonies and statutes for priests. These are written in the Old Italic alphabet. The inscriptions are dated from the 7th through 1st centuries BC. The Iguvine Tables were a series of seven bronze tablets discovered at Iguvium, contemporary Gubbio, in Italy in the year 1444. ... Gubbio is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia, (Umbria), . At 522 m (1713 ft) above sea-level, it clings to the first slope of Mt. ... Assorted ancient bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ... In the religious sense, law can be thought of as the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs. ... Roman Catholic priests in traditional clerical clothing. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 7th century BC started on January 1, 700 BC and ended on December 31, 601 BC. // Overview Events Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria who created the the first systematically collected library at Nineveh A 16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. ...

Currently, the term is used to indicate a regional dialect of the Italian language; it is not very distinctive as compared say to Sicilian or Milanese. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Italian ( , or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 80 million people primarily in Italy. ...