Umbrian

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U0016300 (ŭm′brē-ən)adj. Of or relating to Umbria.n.1. The Italic language of ancient Umbria.2. A native or inhabitant of Umbria.

Umbrian

(ˈʌmbrɪən) adj1. (Peoples) of or relating to Umbria, its inhabitants, their dialect of Italian, or the ancient language once spoken there2. (Languages) of or relating to Umbria, its inhabitants, their dialect of Italian, or the ancient language once spoken there3. (Placename) of or relating to Umbria, its inhabitants, their dialect of Italian, or the ancient language once spoken there4. (Historical Terms) of or relating to Umbria, its inhabitants, their dialect of Italian, or the ancient language once spoken there5. (Art Movements) of or relating to a Renaissance school of painting that included Raphaeln6. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Umbria7. (Languages) an extinct language of ancient S Italy, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. See also Osco-Umbrian8. (Historical Terms) an extinct language of ancient S Italy, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. See also Osco-Umbrian

Um•bri•an

(ˈʌm bri ən)
n. 1. a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Umbria. 2. an Italic language of ancient Umbria. adj. 3. of or pertaining to Umbria, its inhabitants, or their language. [1595]

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Umbrian - an extinct Italic language of ancient southern ItalyOsco-Umbrian - a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin

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Umbrian

(ŭm`brēən), extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languagesItalic languages,
subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy.
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Umbrian

the language of the Umbrians; it was spoken in the Umbrian district. Umbrian, the closely related Volscian dialect, and the Oscan language belong to the Osco-Umbrian group of the Italic branch of Indo-European, as contrasted to the Latin-Faliscan group.

Umbrian is represented by about 12 brief inscriptions and by the inscriptions on seven bronze tablets found near the city of Iguvium (modern Gubbio), which constitute the most extensive early linguistic record (some 5,000 words, dating from between the fourth and first centuries B.C.) in Italy, with the exception of Latin and Etruscan. The inscriptions on the first four tablets and on part of the fifth are written in a local Umbrian alphabet of Etruscan origin, and the rest are in Latin.

Distinctive features of Umbrian include monophthongization of Indo-European diphthongs, rhotacism, loss of most final consonants, assimilation of palatalized consonants, and perfect verb forms with the suffixes -l- and -nki-. The speakers of Umbrian were completely romanized by the beginning of the first century A.D. Certain phonetic features and lexical elements in the modern Italian dialects are believed to have originated in the Umbrian substratum.

REFERENCES

Tronskii, I. M. Ocherki iz istorii latinskogo iazyka. Moscow-Leningrad, 1953.
Poultney, J. W. The Bronze Tables of Iguvium. Baltimore, Md., 1959.
Ernout, A. Le Dialecte Ombrien. Paris, 1961.
Devoto, J. Tabulae Iguvinae. Rome, 1962.

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Umbrian

1. of or relating to Umbria, its inhabitants, their dialect of Italian, or the ancient language once spoken there 2. of or relating to a Renaissance school of painting that included Raphael 3. a native or inhabitant of Umbria 4. an extinct language of ancient S Italy, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family

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