List of Nuragic tribes

Nuragic tribes according to the Greek geographer Ptolemy

Ancient tribes of Corsica

Ancient tribes of Sardinia.

This is a list of Nuragic tribes, listed in order of the province (Roman province) or the general area in which they lived. Some closely fit the concept of a tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribes.

Before the Roman conquest in the 3rd century BC, the islands of Corsica and Sardinia were inhabited by three main peoples or ethnic groups, the Corsi, the Balares, and the Ilienses or Iolei, each of them divided into several tribes. With the Roman conquest, the province of Corsica and Sardinia was created, becoming the second province of the Roman Republic to be created after that of Sicily.

The ethnic and linguistic affiliation of the Nuragic people and tribes remains to be further studied. Current knowledge indicates that they may have been related to the Iberians and the Aquitanians, these peoples were Pre-Indo-Europeans and spoke Pre-Indo-European languages: Aquitanian (the ancestor of modern Basque) and Iberian. There is also the possibility that the Nuragic peoples may have been related to the Etruscans and other Tyrsenian peoples and languages.^[1] Because of this, the Nuragic peoples and their languages may also have been Pre-Indo-European.

Nuragic peoples and tribes are the ancestors of most present-day native Sardinians^[2] and Corsicans, and their language or languages, like Paleo-Sardinian, are the substrate of the modern Sardinian and Corsican languages (both pertaining to the Romantic branch). One of the Sea Peoples (the Shardana or Sherden) may have been either a Sardinian population or a group of tribes that migrated to Sardinia in classical antiquity.

If the Corsi, in Corsica and in the extreme north of Sardinia, were a Ligurian people and group of tribes (they probably were an Indo-European people related to the Celts), then they would have been of a different ethnic and linguistic affiliation from the majority of the tribes of Sardinia. Because of this, “Nuragic” may be seen as a geographical and historical generic name for different peoples and languages of different origins, rather than indicating a single origin.

Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica and Far North-East Sardinia

• Corsi
  • Belatones (Belatoni)
  • Cervini
  • Cilebenses (Cilibensi)
  • Corsi Proper, they dwelt at the extreme north-east of Sardinia, near the Tibulati and immediately north of the Coracenses.
  • Cumanenses (Cumanesi)
  • Lestricones/Lestrigones (Lestriconi/Lestrigoni)
  • Licinini
  • Longonenses (Longonensi)
  • Macrini
  • Opini
  • Subasani
  • Sumbri
  • Tarabeni
  • Tibulati, they dwelt at the extreme north of Sardinia, about the ancient city of Tibula, near the Corsi (for whom Corsica is named) and immediately north of the Coracenses.
  • Titiani
  • Venacini

Sardinia

• Balares (Balari)
  • Euthicani
  • Giddilitani
  • Lucuidonenses/Lugudonenses (Lugudonensi), they dwelt south of the Carenses and the Cunusitani and north of the Æsaronenses
  • Nurrenses (Nurrensi), in Nurra territory, not the same tribe as the Norenses/Noritani)

• Ilienses/Iolaes/Diagesbes (Iliensi/Iolaei)
  • Acconiti
  • Aechilenenses/Cornenses (Aichilensi), they dwelt south of the Æsaronenses and north of the Rucensi.
  • Aesaronenses (Esanorensi), they dwelt south of the Salcitani and the Lucuidonenses and north of the Æchilenenses or Cornenses.
  • Beronicenses (Beronicensi)
  • Carenses, they dwelt south of the Coracenses and north of the Salcitani and the Lucuidonenses.
  • Celsitani, they dwelt south of the Rucensi and north of the Scapitani and the Siculensi.
  • Coracenses, they dwelt south of the Tibulati and the Corsi (for whom Corsica is named) and north of the Carenses and the Cunusitani
  • Corpicenses, they dwelt south of the Rucensi and north of the Scapitani and the Siculensi.
  • Cunusitani, they dwelt south of the Coracenses and north of the Salcitani and the Lucuidonenses.
  • Galillenses (Galillesi)
  • Maltamonenses (Maltamonensi)
  • Moddoli
  • Neapolitani, they dwelt south of the Scapitani and the Siculensi and north of the Solcitani and the Noritani.
  • Noritani/Norenses, they dwelt at the extreme south part of the island, immediately south of the Neapolitani and the Valentini
  • Parati
  • Rucensi, they dwelt south of the Æchilenenses (also called Cornenses) and north of the Celsitani and the Corpicenses
  • Salcitani, they dwelt south of the Carenses and the Cunusitani and north of the Æsaronenses.
  • Scapitani, they dwelt south of the Celsitani and the Corpicenses and north of the Neapolitani and the Valentini
  • Semilitenses (Semilitensi)
  • Siculensi (Siculesi), they dwelt south of the Celsitani and the Corpicenses and north of the Neapolitani and the Valentini.
  • Solcitani, they dwelt at the extreme south part of Sardinia, immediately south of the Neapolitani and the Valentini
  • Sossinates (Sossinati)
  • Uddadhaddari
  • Valentini, they dwelt south of the Scapitani and the Siculensi and north of the Solcitani and the Noritani.

See also

• Paleo-Sardinian language
• History of Sardinia
• Nuragic civilization
• Sardinian people
• Torrean civilization
• Corsican people
• Ethnic group
• Tribe

Notes

1. La lingua dei Sardi Nuragici e degli Etruschi - Massimo Pittau
2. La lingua sardiana o dei protosardi, Cagliari, 2001

References

• PITTAU, Massimo. (1970). Lingua e civiltà di Sardegna, I serie. Cagliari: ?
• PITTAU, Massimo. (2004). Lingua e civiltà di Sardegna (II). Cagliari: Della torre.
• PITTAU, Massimo. (1981). La lingua dei Sardi Nuragici e degli Etruschi. Sassari: ?
• PITTAU, Massimo. (1995). Origine e parentela dei sardi e degli etruschi. Sassari: Saggio storico-linguistico.
• PITTAU, Massimo. (1997, I ristampa 2004). I nomi di paesi, città, regioni, monti e fiumi della Sardegna. Significato e origine. Cagliari: Gasperini.
• PITTAU, Massimo. (2001). La lingua sardiana o dei protosardi. Cagliari: ?
• PITTAU, Massimo. (2006). II edizione riveduta e aggiornata. La Sardegna nuragica. Cagliari: Della torre.
• PITTAU, Massimo. (2007). Storia dei sardi nuragici. Selargius: Domus de Janas.
• PITTAU, Massimo. (?). I toponimi della Sardegna. Significato e origine, II Sardegna centrale. Sassari: EDES

External links

• LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World - 51 complete works of authors from Classical Antiquity (Greek and Roman).
• Location of Sardinia island (from the Seventh Map of Europe), Ptolemy, Book III, Chapter 3
• Massimo Pittau, la lingua sardiana o dei protosardi
• Opere scientifiche del prof. Massimo Pittau
• Massimo Pittau, lingua e civiltà di Sardegna
• Massimo Pittau, la lingua dei Sardi Nuragici e degli Etruschi
• Massimo Pittau, Origine e parentela dei Sardi e degli Etruschi