Etruscan was the language of the ancient Etruscan civilization in what is now Italy, attested from roughly 700 BC to 50 AD, when it was gradually superseded by Latin. Around 13,000 inscriptions survive. It is generally agreed to be in the Tyrrhenian language family, closely related to the Raetic language once spoken in the Alps, though it used to be commonly treated as a language isolate; the consensus among linguists is that Etruscan was a Pre-Indo-European, Paleo-European language unrelated to Latin or the other Italic languages that eventually displaced it.
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The Old Italic scripts were a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula from about 700 to 100 BC for various languages; Etruscan, the best-attested of them, was written in the Etruscan alphabet, which was imported from the Euboean Greek colonies of Cumae and Ischia in the 8th century BC.
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It is attested from 700 BC to 50 AD
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It is attested from 700 BC to 50 AD
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It is attested from 700 BC to 50 AD
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in the ancient region of Etruria, in Etruria Padana and Etruria Campana in what is now Italy
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