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The Etruscans are believed to have spoken a Pre-Indo-European [117] [118] [119] and Paleo-European language, [120] and the majority consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the Tyrsenian language family, which in itself is an isolate family, that is unrelated directly to other known language groups.
Rix finds Etruscan on the one hand genetically related to the Rhaetic language spoken in the Alps north of Etruria, suggesting autochthonous connections, but on the other hand he notes that the Lemnian language found on the "Lemnos stele" is closely related to Etruscan, entailing either Etruscan presence in "Tyrsenian" Lemnos, or "Tyrsenian ...
He finds Etruscan on one hand genetically related to the Rhaetic language spoken in the Alps north of Etruria, suggesting autochthonous connections, but on the other hand the Lemnian language found on the "Lemnos stele" is closely related to Etruscan, entailing either Etruscan presence in "Tyrsenian" Lemnos, or "Tyrsenian" expansion westward to ...
It was spoken by a few people in Pesqueira in 1968. Loukotka (1968) ... Central America: ca. 19th century: ... Etruscan: Tyrsenian: central Italy [311] 100 AD:
The Etruscan language portion has 16 lines and 37 words. The date is roughly 500 BC. [76] The tablets were found in 1964 by Massimo Pallottino during an excavation at the ancient Etruscan port of Pyrgi, now Santa Severa. The only new Etruscan word that could be extracted from close analysis of the tablets was the word for 'three', ci. [77]
An example is the Etruscan language, ... the reconstructed common ancestor of the Tupian languages of South America, was probably spoken in the region between the ...
Most scholars consider that Etruscan is a pre-IE survival, a Paleo-European language [23] part of an older European linguistic substratum, [3] spoken long before the arrival of proto Indo-European speakers. Some scholars have earlier speculated that Etruscan language could have been introduced by later migrants.
The premier scholarly journal of Etruscan Studies is Studi Etruschi. A recent addition to the scholarly literature is the American journal, Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation, which began publication in 1994. A more informal organ is Etruscan News and the accompanying cyber-publication Etruscan News Online. [1]