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Tyrsenian (also Tyrrhenian or Common Tyrrhenic), [3] named after the Tyrrhenians (Ancient Greek, Ionic: Τυρσηνοί Tyrsenoi), is an extinct family of closely related ancient languages put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998, which consists of the Etruscan language of northern, central and south-western Italy, and eastern Corsica (); the Raetic language of the Alps, named after the ...
Tyrrhenians (Attic Greek: Τυῤῥηνοί Turrhēnoi) or Tyrsenians (Ionic: Τυρσηνοί Tursēnoi; Doric: Τυρσανοί Tursānoi [1]) was the name used by the ancient Greeks authors to refer, in a generic sense, to non-Greek people, in particular pirates.
The Tyrrhenian Sea (/ t ɪ ˈ r iː n i ən,-ˈ r eɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-; [1] Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or ) [note 1] is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people identified with the Etruscans of Italy.
If the labiovelars were just labialized forms of the "plain velars", they would then have been pronounced *[qʷ], *[ɢʷ], *[ɢʷʱ] but the pronunciation of the labiovelars as *[kʷ], *[ɡʷ], *[ɡʷʱ] would still be possible in uvular theory, if the satem languages first shifted the "palatovelars" and then later merged the "plain velars" and ...
Tyrrhenian language family tree as proposed by de Simone and Marchesini (2013) [15] In 1998, Helmut Rix put forward the view that Etruscan is related to other extinct languages such as Raetic , spoken in ancient times in the eastern Alps , and Lemnian , [ 28 ] [ 1 ] to which other scholars added Camunic language , spoken in the Central Alps .
Tyrrhenian language family tree as proposed by de Simone and Marchesini (2013) [7] The German linguist Helmut Rix proposed in 1998 that Rhaetic, along with Etruscan, was a member of a language family he called Tyrrhenian, and which was possibly influenced by neighboring Indo-European languages.
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Map of Italy with Aeaea marked south of Rome (Abraham Ortelius, 1624)Aeaea, Ææa or Eëä (/ iː ˈ iː ə / ee-EE-ə or / ə ˈ iː ə / ə-EE-ə; Ancient Greek: Αἰαία, romanized: Aiaíā [ai̯.ǎi̯.aː]) was a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe.