The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime around 100 AD.

The Etruscan alphabet developed from a Western variety of the Greek alphabet brought to Italy by Euboean Greeks. The earliest known inscription dates from the middle of the 6th century BC.

The Etruscan alphabet contains letters that have since been dropped from the Greek alphabet, such as the digamma, sampi and qoppa. [16] Grammatically, the language is agglutinating, with nouns and verbs showing suffixed inflectional endings and some gradation of vowels.

Etruscan alphabet, writing system of the Etruscans, derived from a Greek alphabet (originally learned from the Phoenicians) as early as the 8th century bc. It is known to modern scholars from more than 10,000 inscriptions. Like the alphabets of …

Etruscan language, language isolate spoken by close neighbours of the ancient Romans. The Romans called the Etruscan s Etrusci or Tusci; in Greek they were called Tyrsenoi or Tyrrhenoi; in Umbrian and Italic language their name can be found in the adjective turskum.

2018年11月5日 · It is well known that the Etruscans were the first population of Italy to adopt a writing system based on an alphabet, which was derived from some variants of the Greek alphabet and which, according to an account more “mythological” than real, reported by Tacitus, was introduced into the lands of the Etruscans by Demaratus of Corinth, a wealthy ...

The Etruscan language is a unique, non-Indo-European outlier in the ancient Greco-Roman world. There are no known parent languages to Etruscan, nor are there any modern descendants, as Latin gradually replaced it, along with other Italic languages, as the Romans gradually took control of the Italian peninsula.

By 400 BC, it appears that all of Etruria was using the classical Etruscan alphabet of 20 letters, mostly written from left to right: An additional sign 8 in shape similar to the numeral 8, transcribed as F, was present in both Lydian and Etruscan (Jensen 513).

2017年2月21日 · The Etruscan alphabet was adapted from a western Greek one, in all probability introduced by traders from Euboea sometime before 700 BCE, and so its pronunciation is generally known. With this Greek contact, new words were required for new objects arriving in the Etruscan world, and these show a marked similarity to their Greek originals.

The Etruscan alphabet is an ancient writing system used by the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization in Italy. The alphabet is of significant historical interest due to its influence on the development of the Latin script, which forms the basis of many modern alphabets, including the English alphabet.