Encyclopedia - Tyrrhenian: Encyclopedia - Tyrrhenian
Tyrrhenian may refer to the Pelasgians (Sophocles Inachus, fr. 256, Thucydides 4.106) the pre-Greek Lemnians the Etruscans the Tyrrhenia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Raetic Language: Encyclopedia - Raetic Language
Raetic or Rhaetic is an obscure language of antiquity, which used to be spoken in the province of Raetia, in the Eastern Alps, to the nor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eteocretan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Eteocretan Language - Known Inscriptions
Dreros 1 1: ---rmaw|et|isalabre|komn 2: ---d|men|inai|isaluria|lmo 3: ----tonturonmēa.oaoiewad 4: eturo---munadoa-enē-- 5: --m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - History
The Etruscans are thought by some to be indigenous people of Italy, living there before the Indo-European migration and the arrival of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - Translation Of The Lemnos Stele
In order to properly translate the stele, one must sift through a sea of hearsay and speculation that abounds about this cloudy text. Som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - The Lemnos Stela
The stela was found built into a church wall in Kaminia and is now at the National Museum, Athens. The 6th-century date is based on the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - Classification
Due to the high degree of similarity between Lemnian and Etruscan, it has been concluded that the two languages are closely related withi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Lemnian Language - Relationships To Other Languages
Characters similar to those used in Lemnos Stele inscription are also found on some pottery fragments on Lemnos. The Lemnian inscriptions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Other Less Accepted Theories
The interest in Etruscan antiquities and the mysterious Etruscan language found its modern origin in a book by a Dominican monk, Annio da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Classification
The majormost consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the Tyrrhenian language family which in itsel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Geographic Distribution
Etruscan was spoken in north-west and west-central Italy, in the region that even now bears their name: Tuscany, and in the Po valley to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Sounds
The reconstructed phonemes of Etruscan (IPA encoding): Etruscan language - Vowels. /a/ letter: A /e/ letter: E /i/ letter: I /u/ lette...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Texts
Helmut Rix, Etruskische Texte, works as a kind of incomplete thesaurus, a main key to studying the Etruscan language. First of all Rix an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etruscan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Etruscan Language - Vocabulary
Due to its isolation, no significant certain translations from Etruscan into modern languages have been produced yet, however we can be f...   » Read the article