Aequian language

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Aequian
Spoken in: East-central Italy
Language extinction: ?
Language family: Indo-European
 Italic
  Aequian
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ine
ISO 639-3: xae
Approximate distribution of languages in Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC.
Approximate distribution of languages in Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC.

Aequian is an extinct language that was part of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, closely related to Umbrian. It was spoken by the Aequi in North-East Latium

It was spoken in east-central Italy in the Alban hills near Rome from the 5th - 3rd century BCE before the Common Era.

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