Aequian language

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Aequian
Spoken in Aequi
Region Latium, east-central Italy
Language extinction  ?
Language family Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2 ine
ISO 639-3 xae
Abraham Ortelius's map of ancient Latium, published in 1595

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 northeast Latium.

It was spoken in east-central Italy in the Alban hills near Rome from the 5th to the 3rd century BC.

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