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To: Fred Nerks

No harm done, sometimes those doubles just appear by themselves. :')

I thought there might be some stuff on Sicanian in the usual spots, but there wasn't, alas:

http://www.ethnologue.com/family_index.asp

http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws_atoz.html


68 posted on 11/30/2006 10:54:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oscan was an Indo-European tongue spoken in S Italy:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/oscan.html


69 posted on 11/30/2006 11:00:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

There is little evidence that the Sicanians ever made wide use of any written language before the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet (shown here with the Greek and Early Roman alphabets), which they wrote from right to left. (Mycenean script has been found on some pieces of pottery.) On a pre-historic level, it seems probable that they were descended, for the most part, from Sicily's Bronze Age inhabitants. Indeed, the Sicans probably represented the main group descended from these first indigenous Sicilians. The theory of the Sicanians' Iberian origin is supported by a rather few linguistic factors thought to be shared with early Iberian tongues, though the evidence is hardly conclusive...

http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art141.htm


70 posted on 11/30/2006 11:10:07 PM PST by Fred Nerks (MEDIA + ENEMY = ENEMEDIA!)
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