Social:Aequian language
| Aequian | |
|---|---|
 Alba Fucens inscription | |
| Native to | Aequian country |
| Region | Latium, east-central Italy |
| Ethnicity | Aequi |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xae |
| Glottolog | aequ1239[1] |
 Abraham Ortelius's map of ancient Latium, published in 1595 | |
Corpus
Aequian is scantily documented by two inscriptions. Conway's publication of Italic inscriptions adds a gloss, several place names and several dozen personal names, but it does not distinguish which of these are certainly endonyms and which are Latin exonyms in use by the Latin-speaking population.[2]
The inscription of Alba Fucens is a bronze plate inscribed with ALBSI PATRE.[3][4] This text has since been lost; its contents survive only in a drawing.[5] Conway reconstructs the first word as *albe(n)si, a dative case. Baldi translates the text into Latin as Albano patri, two datives, and into English as "To the (god named) Alban Father."[6] According to Conway, the alphabet itself provides no indication as to the date of the text, though he surmises that it is relatively young.[4]
The second document is the Inscription of Cliternia (Capradosso) in Petrella Salto, an inscribed stone in a spring dissociated from context by nature (it rolled down a hill).[7] The text is:[4]
- VIA INFERIOR | PRIVATAST | T VMBRENI C F |
- PRECARIO | ITVR | PECVS PLOSTRV | NIQVIS AGAT
It is a notice stating that the road is private, passage by permission of Titus Umbrenus, son of Gaius, but beasts of burden are forbidden.
Notes
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Aequian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/aequ1239.
- ↑ Conway 1897, pp. 301–305.
- ↑ Ernout 1916, pp. 43–44 gives the CIL number, as the inscription was originally taken to be early Latin: CIL I2 385, VI 3672, IX 4177.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Conway 1897, p. 301.
- ↑ Stuart-Smith 2004, pp. 124–125.
- ↑ Baldi 2002, p. 122.
- ↑ CIL IX, 4171, according to Ernout 1916, p. 45.
Bibliography
- Baldi, Philip (2002). The Foundations of Latin. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Conway, Robert Seymour (1897). The Italic Dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://archive.org/details/italicdialects02conw.
- Ernout, Alfred (2009) (in fr). Recueil de Textes Latins Archaïques. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/stream/recueildetextesl00ernouoft#page/42/mode/2up.
- Stuart-Smith, Jane (2004-06-17) (in en). Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic (1 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199257737.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-925773-7. https://academic.oup.com/book/3056.
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