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The Etruscan alphabet used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime around 100 AD. The Etruscan alphabet derives from the Euboean alphabet used in the Greek colonies in southern Italy which belonged to the "western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek ...
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Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in...
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21 of the 26 archaic Etruscan letters were adopted for Old...
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Learn about the Etruscan language, its history, relation to other languages, and writing system. See examples of Etruscan inscriptions, numerals, and fonts.
Etruscan alphabet, writing system of the Etruscans, derived from a Greek alphabet (originally learned from the Phoenicians) as early as the 8th century bc. It is known to modern scholars from more than 10,000 inscriptions. Like the alphabets of the Middle East and the early forms of the Greek.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Etruscan language, language isolate spoken by close neighbours of the ancient Romans. The Romans called the Etruscans Etrusci or Tusci; in Greek they were called Tyrsenoi or Tyrrhenoi; in Umbrian and Italic language their name can be found in the adjective turskum.
Etruscan did not appear in written form until the seventh century B.C., after contact with Euboean Greek traders and colonists, and it is the Euboean Greek alphabet that the Etruscans adopted and adapted to fulfill the phonological and grammatical needs of their native tongue.
