Etruscan language
The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscans in the ancient area of Etruria (what is now Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Latium) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (where the Gauls took the place of the Etruscans), in Italy.
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 The Cippus Perusinus, a stone tablet bearing 46 lines of incised Etruscan text, one of the longest extant Etruscan inscriptions. 3rd or 2nd century BC. | ||||
| Native to | Ancient Etruria | |||
| Region | Italian Peninsula | |||
| Extinct | >AD 180linglist | |||
| Language family | Tyrsenian?
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| Writing system | Old Italic script | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | ett | |||
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Inscriptions have been found in northwestern and west-central Italy in the region that still has a name that came from the Etruscans, Tuscany (from Latin tuscī "Etruscans") and in Latium, north of Rome, in Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po Valley to the north of Etruria. That is probably the area in Italy in which the language was once spoken.
Etruscan Language Media
Drawing of the inscriptions on the Liver of Piacenza; see haruspex
Maximum extent of Etruscan civilization and the twelve Etruscan League cities.
Tyrrhenian language family tree as proposed by de Simone and Marchesini (2013)
Etruscan dedication to the "sons of Zeus" (Dioscuri) made by Venel Apelinas (or Atelinas), and signed by the potter Euxitheos and the painter Oltos, on the bottom of an Attic red-figure kylix (c. 515–510 BC)
The Pyrgi Tablets, sheets of gold with a bilingual treatise in Etruscan (center and right) and Phoenician, at the Etruscan Museum in Rome
Tumulus on a street at Banditaccia, the main necropolis of Caere
Bronze plaque (300–100 BC) with dedication to Culsans
Etruscan I
Other websites
- Etruscan News Online, the Newsletter of the American Section of the Institute for Etruscan and Italic Studies.
- Etruscan News back issues Archived 2007-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Ancient Studies at New York University.
- Etruscology at Its Best, the website of Dr. Dieter H. Steinbauer, in English. Covers origins, vocabulary, grammar and place names.
- Viteliu: The Languages of Ancient Italy at web.archive.org.
- The Etruscan Language Archived 2012-02-11 at the Wayback Machine, the linguistlist.org site. Links to many other Etruscan language sites.