| Group | Italic (with Oscan, Umbrian etc.), Latino-Faliscan (with Latin) |
| Geography | Faliscan was the closest language to Latin. Strabo depicting Central Italy in the 1st century AD writes the following about Faliscans: "[In Southern Etruria] there are also plenty of small towns: Blera, Ferentinus, Falerii, Faliscus, Nepeta, Statonia and others... Some claim Falerians are not Tyrrhenians but a single tribe of Faliscans. Others consider Faliscus the town with its own language". |
| History | Several centuries before Strabo, inscriptions were made using the Etruscan alphabet in the Faliscan language. The Etruscan expansion after 900 BC made Faliscan towns as part of Etruria, though the population was not completely assimilated. Faliscan inscriptions date back from the 7th to the 1st century BC, but they give scarce information containing only personal names and few words. |
| Phonetics | Strong infleunce of Etruscan affected the language. Different from Latin are Faliscan unstressed vowels which are preserved everywhere, but dropped in Latin. Some progressive features are also seen here: old diphthongs ai, au become e, o earlier than in Latin. Indo-European *dh, *bh in the middle of the word turn into f, while becoming b in Latin. |
| Morphology | A number of ancient noun endings were preserved in Faliscan inscriptions, including the genitive singular -as for feminine nouns and -osio for masculine thematic nouns; the former is witnessed also in Archaic Latin. In the verb conjugation, Faliscan was losing the 3rd person singular -t ending. |
| Lexicon | Personal names of Faliscan were influenced strongly by Etruscan. |
| Writing | Etruscan alphabet |
| Close Contacts | Etruscan, Latin |
| Sample | Menerva sacru. la cotena la f pretod de zenatuo sententiad vootum
dedet, cvando datu rected
cuncaptum. Latin:
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