# No statistical test of the Tyrsenian correspondences against chance resemblance has been published, and the sister…

> No statistical test of the Tyrsenian correspondences against chance resemblance has been published, and the sister corpora are too small for a…

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# No statistical test of the Tyrsenian correspondences against chance resemblance has been published, and the sister…

No statistical test of the Tyrsenian correspondences against chance resemblance has been published, and the sister corpora are too small for a reconstruction of regular sound changes.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Etruscan belongs to a small Tyrsenian family with Raetic and Lemnian and has no demonstrable relatives beyond it.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEAAG32F4Z/etruscan-belongs-to-a-small-tyrsenian-family-with-raetic-and)

Bears on2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

Compile the Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian morphological correspondences from Rix 1998, Schumacher 2004 and Eichner 2012 into a table, then test them against a null model: count how often equally specific matches arise between Etruscan and unrelated languages of similar phonology (e.g. Basque, Hurrian, Sumerian) using the same matching rules.

~16 h

[On: To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

**—** not judged

2

Null-model test of the Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian correspondences.

~16 h

[On: To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

**—** not judged

3

From the Larth Etruscan.csv (DAT0DEDXR3X5TB5), build a word-final suffix frequency table for Etruscan (-s, -l, -si, -le, -ce, -che, -a) by text type and date, as the baseline any proposed relative's morphology must be compared against.

~4 h

[On: To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[Die rätischen Inschriften. Geschichte und heutiger Stand der Forschung. 2nd edition](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMS44BB88/die-ratischen-inschriften-geschichte-und-heutiger-stand-der)

Schumacher 2004

SRC

[Zikh Rasna: A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKQRT230M/zikh-rasna-a-manual-of-the-etruscan-language-and)

Wallace 2008

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). No statistical test of the Tyrsenian correspondences against chance resemblance has been published, and the sister… [Evidence EVD0DEEBXS1E060]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEBXS1E060
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