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--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Capsicum <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: >I've been waiting long for an Oscan conlang. I did look for Oscan words >in my Latin dictionary and I read about sounds in Latin dialects >influenced by Oscan. I wanted to buy a text book with Oscan inscriptions >last autumn, but I decided to do later, because books cost money and I >have to concentrate on Latin. I got an Old Latin text book though. Oscan is fun and makes a neat alternative to Latin for Italic conlangs. I never got any further than one short text with an Oscan-inspired conlang. I should work on it again some time. Have you tried (if available) to find something on Oscan via interlibrary loan? I know there are a couple grammars -- I have one in German (which I don't read well, but can understand paradigms), but am looking into Buck's (cos it's in English). Amazon has a relatively inexpensive reprint; or better yet, go to http://www.archive.org/details/grammarofoscanum00buckuoft and get the pdf. Grammar plus inscriptions -- old but still quite serviceable. Padraic