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Which alphabet was used for the surviving Faliscan inscriptions?
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Map showing the approximate extent of the Italic and neighboring languages about 250 bce.
The surviving Faliscan inscriptions were written in a native alphabet derived from the Etruscan script.12
Faliscan was an Italic language closely related to Latin, spoken by the Falisci people in a region of central Italy northwest of the Tiber River. The corpus of these inscriptions is relatively small, consisting primarily of short sepulchral texts found near the city of Falerii, though some earlier vessel inscriptions dating to the 6th century BCE have also been discovered.13