# Raetic was written in alphabets taken from north Etruscan ones, so a channel for Etruscan influence on Raetic existed.

> Raetic was written in alphabets taken from north Etruscan ones, so a channel for Etruscan influence on Raetic existed.

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Evidence · Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

# Raetic was written in alphabets taken from north Etruscan ones, so a channel for Etruscan influence on Raetic existed.

Raetic was written in alphabets taken from north Etruscan ones, so a channel for Etruscan influence on Raetic existed.

Speculative0

## 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)

Supports1 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 1

[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

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Raetic was written in alphabets taken from north Etruscan ones, so a channel for Etruscan influence on Raetic existed. [Evidence EVD0DEEBY4CDD7A]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEBY4CDD7A
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