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North Picene is an ancient language, believed to have been spoken in part of north eastern Italy. The evidence for the language consists of four inscriptions dating from the 1st millennium BC, three of them no more than small broken fragments. It is written in a form of the Old Italic alphabet. While its texts are easily transliterated, not a single word has been translated so far. It is not possible to determine whether it is related to any other known language. Despite the use of similar names, it does not appear that North Picene and South Picene are closely related, if they are related at all. The total number of words in the inscriptions is about 60. It is not even certain that the inscriptions are all in one language. The forerunner of the term North Picene was devised by Joshua Whatmough in Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy, 1933, a catalogue of Italic texts. Although neither type of text could be read with any confidence he distinguished between six northern East Italic inscriptions and all the rest southern. The northern later lost three and gained one. Before that work all the inscriptions had been lumped together under a variety of names, such as Sabellic.
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