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

Siculian
Sicel
Region	Sicily
Era	attested late 6th century to 4th century BCE[1][2]
Language family	Indo-European (?) Italic Siculian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	scx
Linguist List	scx
Glottolog	sicu1234

Classification

Ancient sources state that Siculians entered Sicily from the Italian Peninsula either around the 13th century or the middle of the 11th century BCE (or in two waves), driving the prior inhabitants, the Sicanians and Elymians, to the west of the island.[3]

The prevalent modern view is that Siculian was an Italic language, although the scarcity of sources and the difficulties in interpreting inscriptions and glosses make it impossible to come to a definitive conclusion.[4]

Attestations

They used the Greek alphabet, along with a native one based upon Western Greek scripts, probably the Euboic-Chalkidic version.[1] According to scholar Markus Hartmann, "of the fewer than thirty inscriptions in total, only six appear to be at least in part intelligible and to be Siculian (i.e., most certainly neither Greek nor belonging to some other Italic or pre-Italic language)."[5]

ΝΕΝΔΑΣ Π̣Υ̣[----]Σ ΤΕΒΕΓ ΠΡΑΑΡΕΙ ΕΝ ΒΟ[.]ΡΕΝΑΙ ϜΙΔΕ ΠΑΓΟΣΤΙΚΕ ΑΙΤΕ[--]ΛΥΒΕ
nendas ˌ puṛẹṇọṣ ˌ tebeg ˌ praarei ˌ en ˌ bo?renai ˌ vide ˌ pagostike ˌ aite?ṇ?ụbe.

— Stele from Sciri Sottano (c. 600 BCE)[6][5]

tamuraabesakedqoiaves ˌ eurumakes ˌ agepipokedḷutimbe levopomanatesemaidarnakei- buṛeitaṃomịaetiurela

— Amphora from Montagna di Marzo (late 6th–early 5th century BCE)[5]

ΙΑΜ ΑΚΑΡΑΜ ΕΠΟΠΑΣ ΚΑΑΓΙΙΕΣ ΓΕΠΕΔ ΤΟΥΤΟ FΕΡΕΓΑΙ ΕΣΗΕΙΚΑΔ[.] ΑΛΑ
iamˌakaramˌe?p??asˌkaag?esˌgẹpẹḍ2te?toˌveregai- es? ˌ eka ˌ doara[ịẹạḍ]

— Block of sandstone from Mendolito (late 6th century BCE)[7][5]

nunus ˌ teṇti ˌ mím ˌ arustainam ˌ íemitom ˌ esti ˌ durom ˌ nanepos ˌ durom ˌ íemitom ˌ esti ˌ velíom ˌ ned ˌ emponitantom ˌ eredes ˌ vịino ˌ brtome

— Guttus (or askos) from Centorbi (early 5th century BCE)[5]

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На других языках

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[de] Sikulische Sprache

Als sikulische Sprache wird eine Sprache, benannt nach dem antiken Volk der Sikuler, bezeichnet, die während der Griechischen Kolonisation auf Sizilien gesprochen wurde und die durch viele direkte oder indirekte Sprachzeugnisse aus dem 6. bis 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. für unterschiedliche Regionen Siziliens bezeugt ist.

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- [en] Siculian

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[es] Idioma sículo

El idioma sículo es una lengua indoeuropea antigua del grupo itálico hablada antiguamente en Sicilia en la parte oriental de la isla.[1]

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[fr] Sicule (langue)

Le sicule est une langue aujourd’hui morte. Très peu connue, elle fut parlée par les Sicules (en grec Sikeloi, en latin Siculi) en Sicile. Elle est considérée comme proche ou faisant partie des langues italiques, la branche des langues indo-européennes à laquelle se rattache le latin[1].

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[it] Lingua sicula

La lingua sicula è una lingua indoeuropea estinta, limitatamente attestata. Era parlata dal popolo dei Siculi nella Sicilia orientale, il cui stanziamento è attestabile a partire dal II millennio a.C.[1][2]. La lingua appartiene al ramo delle lingue latino-falische, membro della stessa famiglia linguistica indoeuropea del latino e del falisco[3].

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[ru] Сикульский язык

Сику́льский язык — мёртвый язык, на котором говорили сикулы — один из доримских народов Сицилии (другие два, сиканы и элимцы, были более ранним населением острова, не родственным сикулам).

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