and the 'Sabellic' languages in between (see next section) having features of both.

However, there were also colonies that spoke Oscan, scattered throughout southern Italy and Sicily. Oscan was the language of the Samnite tribes, powerful enemies of the Romans, who took years to subdue them (the Samnite wars took place from 370 BC to 290 BC).

These languages are known from a few hundred

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