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of the ancient Etruscan civilization in what is now Italy, attested from roughly 700 BC to 50 AD, when it was gradually superseded by Latin.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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Source Etruscan language (Wikipedia)
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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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1. Glottolog: Etruscan
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Etruscan (ett-ett) = 10 (Extinct).
2. Etruscan language (Wikipedia)
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Etruscan influenced Latin but was eventually superseded by it.
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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
In Family: Tyrsenian, Lead
Nowadays it is generally agreed to be in the Tyrrhenian language family
View the Source 3. Etruscan (Wikidata)
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Wikidata item Q35726, property P1098 (number of speakers): 0 (normal rank, non-deprecated)
4. Etruscan (Wikipedia)
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The date of the extinction of Etruscan is held by scholarship to have been either in the late 1st century BC or the early 1st century AD.
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