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3 unusual facts about Etruscan language


Bedigliora

Traces of prehistoric settlements in the area include a Neolithic era ax, tombs from the Iron Age, a stele with northern Etruscan inscriptions and a domed grave.

Etruscan language

Etruscan religion influenced that of the Romans and many of the few surviving Etruscan language artifacts are of votive or religious significance.

In 1858, the last attempt was made by Johann Gustav Stickel, Jena University: "Das Etruskische (...) als Semitische Sprache erwiesen".


James Clackson

His research interest include ancient Languages of the Italian peninsula (Latin, Sabellian, Etruscan), Indo-European linguistics, Latin linguistics, Greek linguistics and Armenian.

Menrva

She was often depicted in the Judgement of Paris, called Elcsntre (Alexander, his alternative name in Greek) in Etruscan, one of the most popular Greek myths in Etruria.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov

He supports the revisionist fringe theory that Russian language descends from the Vedas and Etruria, put forward by philologist Valery Chudinov.

Terracina

The name Tarracina has been instead pointed out variously as pre-Indo-European origin, or as Etruscan (Tarchna or Tarchuna, the name of the Tarquinii family): in this view, it would precede the Volscian conquest.

Tyrsenian languages

Tyrsenian (Tyrsenisch, also Tyrrhenian), named after the Tyrrhenians (Ancient Greek: Tursānoi, Tursēnoi, Turrhēnoi), is an extinct family of closely related ancient languages proposed by Helmut Rix (1998), that consists of the Etruscan language of central Italy, the Raetic language of the Alps, and the Lemnian language of the Aegean Sea.


see also

Larissa Bonfante

(with Giuliano Bonfante) The Etruscan language: an introduction, 1983