# Lydian is an Indo-European Anatolian language with no resemblance to Etruscan, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus already…

> Lydian is an Indo-European Anatolian language with no resemblance to Etruscan, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus already observed.

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# Lydian is an Indo-European Anatolian language with no resemblance to Etruscan, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus already…

Lydian is an Indo-European Anatolian language with no resemblance to Etruscan, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus already observed.

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## What it means

Key question[Where did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYM533WF5/where-did-the-etruscan-language-come-from-anatolia-the)

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Answer this evidence bears on[The Etruscans and their language came from western Anatolia or the north-east Aegean, as Herodotus's Lydian story…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEBA222F8E/the-etruscans-and-their-language-came-from-western-anatolia)

Counts against1 for, 2 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 2

[Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Antiquities), Book 1, chapter 30](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJ2YDBEB/antiquitates-romanae-roman-antiquities-book-1-chapter-30)

Halicarnassus 1885

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[Etruscan](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM0ZD5R16/etruscan)

Rix 2008

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Lydian is an Indo-European Anatolian language with no resemblance to Etruscan, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus already… [Evidence EVD0DEEC9092GJB]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEC9092GJB
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