Etruscan alphabet
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- writing system
- Country
- Ancient Rome
- Based on
- Greek alphabet
- Location
- Central Italy
- Image
- Etruscan cippus warrior head side.jpg
- Has use
- Etruscan
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- language of work or name
- Etruscan
- script directionality
- right-to-left
- Commons category
- Etruscan alphabet
- inception
- 0800-00-00
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- Etruscan alphabet
- derivative work
- Latin alphabet
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Encyclopedic overview
The Marsiliana Tablet, with an archaic form of the Etruscan alphabet inscribed on the frame 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 derives from the Euboean alphabet used in the Greek colonies in southern Italy which belonged to the "western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously with it).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Etruscan alphabet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.