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"In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary languages across the ancient world." --

Inscriptions, Oscan. --- Oscan language. --- Oscan language --- Osque (Langue) --- Inscriptions osques --- Texts --- Textes --- Inscriptions, Oscan-Umbrian --- Oscan inscriptions --- Samnite language --- Italic languages and dialects --- Inscriptions, Oscan --- Texts.

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"Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Oscan in the Greek alphabet is collected and examined. Understanding the orthography of these inscriptions has far-reaching implications for the historical phonology and morphology of Oscan and the Italic languages (for example providing unique evidence for the reconstruction of the genitive plural). A striking discovery is the lack of a standardised orthography for Oscan in the Greek alphabet, which seriously problematises attempts to date inscriptions by assuming the consistent chronological development of spelling features. There are also intriguing insights into the linguistic situation in South Italy. Rather than a separate community of Oscan-speakers who had adopted and subsequently adapted the Greek alphabet in isolation, we should posit groups who were in touch with contemporary developments in Greek orthography due to widespread Greek-Oscan bilingualism"--

Historical linguistics --- Romance languages --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Oscan language --- Inscriptions, Oscan --- Osque (Langue) --- Inscriptions osques --- Orthography and spelling. --- History. --- Orthographe --- Histoire

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Italic languages and dialects --- Oscan language --- Umbrian language --- Langues italiques --- Osque (Langue) --- Ombrien (Langue) --- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. --- -Italic languages and dialects --- Samnite language --- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc --- Oskisch. --- Umbrisch. --- Duits. --- Deutsch. --- Oskisch-Umbrisch. --- -Glossaries, vocabularies, etc --- -Samnite language --- Oscan language - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. --- Umbrian language - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.