# The shared Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian items are mostly inflectional endings, which are rarely transferred by contact.

> The shared Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian items are mostly inflectional endings, which are rarely transferred by contact.

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# The shared Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian items are mostly inflectional endings, which are rarely transferred by contact.

The shared Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian items are mostly inflectional endings, which are rarely transferred by contact.

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## 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 is a true isolate, and its resemblances to Raetic and Lemnian come from contact or Etruscan influence rather…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEANVY05NG/etruscan-is-a-true-isolate-and-its-resemblances-to-raetic)

Counts against1 for, 1 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

[Neues zur Sprache der Stele von Lemnos (Erster Teil)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDPCQA88RA/neues-zur-sprache-der-stele-von-lemnos-erster-teil)

Eichner 2012

SRC

[Rätisch und Etruskisch](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMRTJYSBZ/ratisch-und-etruskisch)

Rix 1998

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The shared Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian items are mostly inflectional endings, which are rarely transferred by contact. [Evidence EVD0DEEBXYAQB35]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEBXYAQB35
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