The Sound of the Oscan language (Numbers, Vocabulary & Sample Text)

[@AvrahamYairStern]

The Roman poet Ennius once wrote that: "I have three hearts. One in Latin, one in Greek and one in Oscan" in regards to his fluency in all of them.

[@mysteriumvitae5338]

Don Quixote once said: "Homer didn't write in Latin because he was Greek. And Vergil didn't write in Greek because he was Roman. The Catalans and even the Basques should write in their mother tongues, not in _castellano_ , without any shame". He meant: The notion of considering a foreign language higher than one's own is stupid and artificial. In the Antiquitiy, people weren't such idiots. Every mother tongue deserves to be the language of a literature and the people of the Antiquity knew that (in his view). In a way, he was right.Any and every mother tongue does deserve to be the language of a literature. Catalan, Basque, Ukrainian (faced similar problems in the 19th century) and so much more all over the globe. However, Vergil did live at the very time where literary Greek was considered higher than Latin and probably did write in Greek sometimes. Homer, on the other hand, surely didn't use any Latin, that's true. Because in his time, Rome had just formed as a city and learned to write. At best. If he lived in the 8th or 7th century BC. If he lived earlier (which is possible), Rome probably had not yet achieved even that. At best, Homer knew there was a place called Rome and a Latin language spoken there.

[@settenovetre]

Beautiful language, proud to be a descendent of these people. I hope we can reconstruct this enough to teach it in universities.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

You are a descendant of the mighty Samnites? 💪🏻

[@jesusgerardoreyesmontelong4569]

Well, i believe you descent of they me too

[@FlagAnthem]

Lol, you used my Samnite banner reconstruction? cool!

[@guilherm502]

What if instead of the Latin languages of today, we had the 'Oscan languages'? If Oscan prevailed over Latin?Interesting to imagine what would these languages look/sound like...

[@Man_0f_Trenches]

Imagine a world where the Romans spoke Oscan instead of latin. How would Oscan based French sound, or Italian, or Spanish, or Portuguese, or Romanian?

[@Statevector]

Can't believe how often you upload! I love hearing these ancient languages!

[@MarcelloFabretti]

Well, if you've done Oscan now you gotta do Umbrian.

[@juliasabelli2585]

Thank you so much for reconstructing the language of my ancestors ❤

[@peterfazziola9081]

Do we know of any remnants of Oscan in modern Italian dialects in Campania, Basilicata and especially Molise?

[@arilrasnical]

Latin made the other Italic languages fall out of use quickly during the Roman republic because the italic languages were so closely related to begin with. So at least in the way that Vulgar Latin in the late republic / early empire started to change has been attested to be influenced by Oscan. The AU sound becoming a O for example that eventually becomes common in most Romance languages. The tales of Claudius Pulcher referring to himself as Clodius to echo the “people’s speech” is an example I learned about in school.

[@jacopopellicciotti8492]

This is my favourite youtube channel. I love you. Greetings from Abruzzo (part of Safinìm, where Italy was born)

[@victorangeles655]

Just checked my ancient ancestry and apparently my strongest genetic connection was with the samnites, so had to check out my ancestors language

[@diegobarrera6198]

I speak Spanish, it's great to be able to understand some words from the Oscan language. greetings from Chile🇨🇱

[@slayer_starswirl]

voy a Mostar Chilensi a él. Ojalá que haga un video de Chilensi pronto!

[@Helkost]

Calabrian here, thank you for this amazing reconstruction!

[@FirstLast-hz8ut]

Yay! More Extinct languages!

[@jaironperezcopa6503]

It's curious how this language shifted qu- for p-, just like p- Celt languages.

[@desm1er94]

It is an Indo-europian language linked to proto-italic or pre-Roman language. Seems to be very old and also linked to Oscan-Umbrian language native from that side of the central italian peninsula

[@arvantsaraihan5777]

Romanian too... lingua: limba aqua: apă quattuor: patru

[@snaiwa]

So great, as always!

[@Theophan123]

The Oscan writing system seemed to be a combination of ancient Greek and Phoenician/Aramaic letters

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

Pretty system in fact beautiful

[@mshikendodem4316]

Could you do Potawatomi (neshnabémwen/bodéwadmimwen) its similar to western Ojibwe (anishinaabemowin) and even more similar to Eastern Ojibwe/Odawa (nishnaabemwin) in fact neshnabémwen and nishnaabewmin are pronounced exactly the same they just use a different spelling system, they split off ~800 years ago and both have a considerable amount of vowel syncope compared to western ojibwe.

[@furlan1743]

Viteliu for Italia isn’t only Italia’s “progenitor”? I mean Italia came from viteliu.

[@marshallstevie7954]

Oscan is Latin's sister language??

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Oscani, language of the warlike Italic people of the Samnites

[@kaiserwilhelm_ii5392]

Does anyone know a good comprehensive dictionary for Oscan preferably one available online?

[@andreasghb8074]

Cool sounding language. Too bad all the Italic languages other than Latin went extinct. I can definitely see a connection between Oscan and Latin and the Romance language.

[@stgr0186]

Well i can certainly detect some similarities with greek.

[@nicolasbruno829]

The title sequence of the video is inaccurate, fangvam is accusative, and the title needs the nominative case. I'm not sure if oska (osks, would be the male singular) is actually an Oscan adjective, but if it is, the -a ending would not be female. So, if you want an accurate title (although you will be reconstructing unknown words), it might be: *Fangvú Úskú* (Fangvo Osko)

[@bingchillinglover8868]

As a person named Oscar Irl here, I first thought this was a language of us

[@oscarcastelot2154]

@Kaiser Ball [HGB] I thought the name Oscar came from this language 😂😂

[@andreasghb8074]

Are any of you fairly fluent Latin speakers? If so, how much did you understand?

[@Mara-ub3tq]

You HAVE to do Aquitanian.

[@amysylvester7289]

Cool ancient language! Could you do the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) language next please?

[@nikhilalbert3084]

Excellent! Maybe you could rebuild the Indo-European Anatolian languages like this, please?

[@marlonguilherme6530]

Eu amo seus vídeos!

[@andreadeiuliis8552]

grazie

[@thecatalanman9743]

Hands in latin is "manibus", victim: hostia

[@irfannurhadisatria2540]

Do we know whether either Latin or Oscan have substrate influences? Seems Oscan diverged from proto-Italic really fast? That seems to happen with mountainous population expanding rapidly I guess...

[@ammognich888]

How italian have understand only the numbers

[@mauro1101]

If ‘pompe’ means ‘five’ what does ‘Pompeii’ mean then?

[@mauro1101]

Loussant Thank you!

[@desm1er94]

Salve@@mauro1101! Gli Osci o Oschi si insediarono nella loro sede storica l'Opicia, il nucleo centrale del loro insediamento era l'entroterra del Golfo di Napoli, ma testimonianze osche, soprattutto linguistiche, sono attestate in un'area assai più ampia, estesa verso Nord (Abruzzo, Umbria) verso est (Lazio) verso sud (Campania, Molise, Puglia settentrionale, Basilicata e fino all'attuale Calabria settentrionale. Furono inoltre fondate da genti osche anche Pompei ed Ercolano, ecco a cosa le si deve il nome. Ancora oggi sono visibili iscrizioni in lingua Osca nel sito di Pompei che le suggerisco vivamente di visitare appena ne ha la possibilità.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

So the Great Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus is of Oscan/Samnite descent?

[@duffythedragon5176]

0:37 Really?

[@heraclestheodoros2518]

This is a pretty interesting 🤨 language

[@LordSkywalker90]

I'm proud to my ancestors. I descent from oscan, etruscan, lucanians, greek and Romans. Maybe I descent also from longobards, bizantynes, goths and arabs. Holy crap, I born in Campania, Italy.

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

Latin's "Cousin"! So fascinating...

[@LandosTravel]

This is the flag of the sannites not of the oscan but don't worry beautiful video

[@cnardx]

Oscan was the language of Samnites. Oscans = Samnites.

[@UnknownGuy8652]

Super

[@wankawanka3053]

I can definitely see some greek influence here

[@iltoni6895]

Who exactly spoke this language?

[@connorgioiafigliu]

Tribes (mostly the Samnites) in southern Italy from between the 5th and 1st centuries BC

[@lachlanthomaslangmead1651]

Samnites and related Sabellic tribes

[@HyperzonMusicalies]

Southern Italians CE 40

[@skellagyook]

People from around the Campania region in Italy.

[@desm1er94]

All the Oscan trybes all along their own whole territory. So, from actual central Italian regions such as Abruzzo, Umbria and a small part in annexed Latium due to Southern regions like Campania, northern Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria and somewhere in Sicily.

[@royafeghali6590]

Is this like Latin?

[@desm1er94]

It is a Proto-Italic or Pre-Roman language very ancient and seems to be a native language linked to Osco-Umbrians languages, but is related to be an Indo-european language to

[@jessicastolen_]

Oscan amigo

[@iltoni6895]

Qué te has puesto

[@ardaguzel1480]

Good

[@En_4]

💕

[@gery8218]

You should compare all these dead Italic languages using the Lord's Prayer!

[@MysonEggAndHisbrotherCheese]

It is similar to modern italian more than Latin

[@Hampter-m7r]

language of oscar :)

[@NovikNikolovic]

Sounds nothing like Indo-European shockingly