Oscan

On the mosaic threshold the word HAVE, in Oscan and Latin characters, saluted the guest with its friendly syllables.

All this is recorded, and with it their song in barbarous Oscan or early Etruscan, perfectly unintelligible, in which their acclamations were made.

He bore witness to his nationality in the saying quoted by Gellius2 that 'in the possession of the Greek, Oscan, and Latin speech, he possessed three hearts.'

This town either changed its name or perished some time after the middle of the 3rd century B.C., when it was issuing coins of its own with an Oscan legend.

When, centuries later, Latins and Sabines and Etruscans and Oscans, banded together and formed the great city of Rome, it was this alphabet they inherited from their forefathers.