OSCI
Osci, also known as Oscans, were an ancient Italic people who inhabited parts of southern Italy in the first millennium BCE. They spoke Oscan, a member of the Osco-Umbrian branch of the Italic language family, and are known primarily from Latin and Greek writers as well as numerous inscriptions. The Oscan language was written using an alphabet derived from the Etruscan script and is attested from around the 5th century BCE into the early centuries CE.
Geographically, the Osci occupied a broad zone in the south-central Italian peninsula, with core areas in parts
In political terms, the Osci consisted of multiple tribes and federations that engaged in alliances, rivalries,
Today, Osci is of particular interest to historians and linguists studying Italic languages and the ethnogenesis