 Old Italic alphabet - Unicode: Encyclopedia II - Old Italic alphabet - The Etruscan alphabetIt is not clear whether the process of adaptation from the Greek alphabet took place in Italy from the first colony of Greeks, the city of Cumae, or in Greece/Asia Minor. The Etruscan was mostly written from left to right. It was in any case a Western Greek alphabet. In the alphabets of the West, X had the sound value [ks], Ψ stood for [kʰ]; in Etruscan: X = [s], Ψ = [kʰ] or See also:Old Italic alphabet, Old Italic alphabet - The Etruscan alphabet, Old Italic alphabet - The Oscan alphabet, Old Italic alphabet - Unicode Read more here: » Old Italic alphabet: Encyclopedia II - Old Italic alphabet - The Etruscan alphabet |
