Faliscan

Fa·lis·can

noun

A member of an ancient Italic people of southern Etruria.
The language of this people, closely related to Latin and known from place and personal names and from inscriptions.

adjective

Of or relating to the Faliscans or their language or culture.

Origin of Faliscan

From Latin Faliscus from Faleriī , a city of ancient Etruria

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Latin and its nearest congeners, like Faliscan); and (d) Umbrian (or, as it may more safely be called, Iguvine), two principles of classification offer themselves, of which the first is purely linguistic, the second linguistic and topographical.
Much more important than the scanty remains of Faliscan is the Oscan alphabet.
(1909), pp. 337 ff.) argues for a " proto-Tyrrhenian " alphabet from which Etruscan, Umbrian and Oscan descended as one group, and Faliscan and Latin as the other.
This shows some of the phonetic characteristics of the Faliscan dialect, viz.: - 1.
73) is discussed, and where reason is given for thinking that the change of initial f (from an original bh or dh) into an initial h was a genuine mark of Faliscan dialect.

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