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- Volscian was a Sabellic Italic language, which was spoken by the Volsci and closely related to Oscan and Umbrian. It is attested in an inscription found in Velitrae (Velletri), dating probably from early in the 3rd century BC; it is cut upon a small bronze plate (now in the Naples Museum), which must have once been fixed to some votive object, dedicated to the god Declunus (or the goddess Decluna). The language of this inscription is clear enough to show the very marked peculiarities which rank it close beside the language of the Iguvine Tables. It shows on the one hand the labialization of the original velar q (Volscian pis = Latin quis), and on the other hand it palatalizes the guttural c before a following i (Volscian facia Latin faciat). Like Umbrian also, but unlike Latin and Oscan, it has degraded all the diphthongs into simple vowels (Volscian se parallel to Oscan svai; Volscian deue, Old Latin and Oscan deiuai or deiuoi). This phenomenon of what might have been taken for a piece of Umbrian text appearing in a district remote from Umbria and hemmed in by Latins on the north and Oscan-speaking Samnites on the south is a most curious feature in the geographical distribution of the Italic dialects, and is clearly the result of some complex historical movements. In seeking for an explanation we may perhaps trust, at least in part, the evidence of the ethnicon itself: the name Volsci belongs to what may be called the -co- group of tribal names in the centre, and mainly on the west coast, of Italy, all of whom were subdued by the Romans before the end of the 4th century BC; and many of whom were conquered by the Samnites about a century or more earlier. They are, from south to north, Osci, Aurunci, Hernici, Marruci, Falisci; with these were no doubt associated the original inhabitants of Aricia and of Sidicinum, of Vescia among the Aurunci, and of Labici close to Hernican territory. The same formative element appears in the adjective Mons Massicus, and the names Glanica and Marica belonging to the Auruncan district, with Graviscae in south Etruria, and a few other names in central Italy (see "I due strati nella popolazione Indo-Europea dell'Italia Antica," in the Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Storiche, Rome, 1903, p. 17). With these names must clearly be judged the forms Etrusci and Tusci, although these forms must not be regarded as anything but the names given to the Etruscans by the folk among whom they settled. Now the historical fortune of these tribes is reflected in several of their names. The Samnite and Roman conquerors tended to impose the form of their own ethnicon, namely the suffix -no-, upon the tribes they conquered; hence the Marruci became the Marrucini, the Sarici became Aricini, and it seems at least probable that the forms Sidicini, Carecini, and others of this shape are the results of this same process. The conclusion suggested is that these -co- tribes occupied the centre and west coast of Italy at the time of the Etruscan invasion; whereas the -no- tribes only reached this part of Italy, or at least only became dominant there, long after the Etruscans had settled in the Peninsula. It remains, therefore, to ask whether any information can be had about the language of this primitive -co- folk, and whether they can be identified as the authors of any of the various archaeological strata now recognized on Italian soil. If the conclusions suggested under Sabini may be accepted as sound we should expect to find the Volsci speaking a language similar to that of the Ligures, whose fondness for the suffix -sco- has been noticed, and identical with that spoken by the plebeians of Rome, and that this branch of Indo-European was among those which preserved the original Indo-European Velars from the labialization which befell them in the speech of the Samnites, The language of the inscription of Velitrae offers at first sight a difficulty from this point of view, in the conversion which it shows of q to p; but it is to be observed that the ethnicon of Velitrae is Veliternus, and that the people are called on the inscription itself Velestrom (genitive plural); so that there is nothing to prevent our assuming that we have here a settlement of Sabines among the Volscian hills, with their language to some extent (e.g. in the matter of the diphthongs and palatals) corrupted by that of the people round about them; just as we have reason to suppose was the case with the Sabine language of the Iguvini, whose very name was later converted into Iguvinates, the suffix -ti- being much more frequent among the -co- tribes than among the Sabines. The name Volsci itself is significant not merely in its suffix; the older Volusci clearly contains the word meaning marsh identical with Gr. helos, since the change of *velos- to *volus- is phonetically regular in Latin. The name Marica ("goddess of the salt-marshes") among the Aurunci appears also both on the coast of Picenum and among the Ligurians; and Stephanus of Byzantium identified the Osci with the Siculi, whom there is reason to suspect were kinsmen of the Ligures. It is remarkable in how many marshy places this -co- or -ca- suffix is used. Besides the Aurunci and the dea Marica and the intempestaeque Graviscae, we have the Ustica cubans of Horace (Odes 1.17.1), the Hernici in the Trerus Valley, Satricum and Glanica in the Pomptine Marshes.
- Volskin kieltä puhuttiin Italiassa ennen latinan valta-asemaa. Se on itaalinen kieli ja sukua latinalle, umbrille ja oskille.
- 沃尔西语是意大利语族的一支，操这种语言的人叫沃尔西人，沃尔西语和奥斯坎语、翁布里亚语联系很紧密。 证实沃尔西语存在的是在维莱特里（Velletri）发现的一个小铜盘上的铭文（现保存在那不勒斯博物馆），刻于公元前三世纪，曾经用作献给德克鲁努斯神的祭祀器物，碑铭上的语言的独特性显示它与伊库维碑铭上的翁布里亚语是同一类，它的特点是软腭音“q”的唇音化（沃尔西语 pis = 拉丁语 quis），喉音“c”后面跟“i”时，读成上腭音（沃尔西语 facia = 拉丁语 faciat）。这一点与翁布里亚语很相似，但不同于拉丁语和奥斯坎语，它的所有双元音都轉變成单元音（沃尔西语 se，奥斯坎语 svai；沃尔西语 deue，古拉丁语和奥斯坎语 deiuai 或 deiuoi），从地理上讲，在北面的拉丁语和南面的奥斯坎语的包围中，很奇怪会出现这种语音变化现象，但从复杂历史运动中分析，这种变化又很明显。 从种族方面寻找解释，我们可以发现：沃尔西人这个名称属于位于意大利中部靠西海岸地区的名称中有-co-的种族，在公元前四世纪末之前他们还屈从于罗马人的统治，之后被又萨姆尼特人统治了约一个世纪，这些种族是从南到北的奥斯坎人，奥伦希人，黑尔尼希人，马鲁希人，法利希人，还有阿里西亚和西蒂奇的原住民，奥伦希中的维希亚人，以及靠近黑尔尼希的拉必希人。
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