A Vocabulary of Oscan: Including the Oscan and Samnite Glosses

by Claudio R. Salvucci

This volume features over 200 words of Oscan, an Italic Indo-European language spoken by the Samnites of southern Italy. The entries are organized bidirectionally: Oscan-English and English-Oscan, and proper case-forms have been reconstructed for Latin-style dictionary entries (nominative and genitive singulars). It also contains glosses attributed to the Oscans, Samnites, Campanians, and other allied peoples, and the Oscan native alphabet.

41 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

The founder of Evolution Publishing and Manufacturing, Claudio was born in Philadelphia in 1971. His first published work, written while in his early 20's, was an epic poem entitled the Laviniad , based on classical legends of the founding of Rome. He next turned his attention to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania dialectology, authoring three books which have been featured on Pennsylvania Cable Network's About Books . Current projects include serving as series editor for the American Language Reprint series (a collection of early American Indian vocabularies), and writing a local opinion column for the Bucks County Courier Times.