Faliscan language

Faliscan
Faliscan
	Faliscan red-figure vase
Native to	ancient Italy
Region	Southern Etruria (Northern Lazio)
Extinct	about 150 BC
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Faliscan; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Proto-Latino-Faliscan ; ;
Writing system	Faliscan, Etruscan, and Latin alphabets
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xfa
Linguist List	xfa
Glottolog	fali1291
	Map of Italy showing where Faliscan was spoken
	Faliscan is an Extinct language according to the criteria of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The Faliscan language is the extinct Italic language of the ancient Falisci, who lived in Southern Etruria. Together with Latin, it formed the Latino-Faliscan languages group of the Italic languages. It seems probable that the language persisted, being gradually permeated with Latin, until at least 150 BC.

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