Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet
The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Sca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Background
The runes were introduced to, or invented by, the Germanic peoples in the 1st or 2nd century (The oldest known runic inscription dates to...   » 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 - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Background
The runes were introduced to, or invented by, the Germanic peoples in the 1st or 2nd century (The oldest known runic inscription dates to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Overview
The earliest runic inscriptions date from ca. 150, and the alphabet was generally replaced by the Latin alphabet with Christianisation, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Frisian And Anglo-saxon Fuþorc
The Futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used probably from the 5th century onward. T...   » 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 - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Elder Fuþark
The Elder Futhark, used for writing proto-Norse (urnordisk, urnordiska), consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three rows of ei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Elder Fuþark
The Elder Futhark, used for writing proto-Norse (urnordisk, urnordiska), consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three rows of ei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Modern Use
Runic alphabet - Third Reich. Runes have been used in Nazi symbolism by National Socialists and neo-Nazi groups that associate themselv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Unicode
Runic alphabets are assigned Unicode range 16A0–16FF. This block is intended to encode all shapes of runic letters. Each letter is enco...   » 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 - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Younger Fuþark
The Younger Fuþark, also called Scandinavian Fuþark, is a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters. The redu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Frisian And Anglo-saxon Fuþorc
The Futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used probably from the 5th century onward. T...   » 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 - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Younger Fuþark
The Younger Fuþark, also called Scandinavian Fuþark, is a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters. The redu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Modern Use
Runic alphabet - Third Reich. Runes have been used in Nazi symbolism by National Socialists and neo-Nazi groups that associate themselv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Intermediary Inscriptions
In the 7th century appeared an intermediary form of runes between the Elder Futhark and the Younger Futhark, but there are very few inscr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Frisian And Anglo-saxon Fuþorc
main article: Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. The Futhorc are an extended alphabet, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Elder Fuþark
main article: Elder Futhark. The Elder Futhark, used for writing proto-Norse (urnordisk, urnordiska), consist of twenty-four runes, often...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Runic Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Runic Alphabet - Unicode
Runic alphabets are assigned Unicode range 16A0–16FF. This block is intended to encode all shapes of runic letters. Each letter is enco...   » 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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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