# The Iron Age Etruscan population was genetically local, sharing ancestry with Latin-speaking neighbours.

> The Iron Age Etruscan population was genetically local, sharing ancestry with Latin-speaking neighbours.

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

# The Iron Age Etruscan population was genetically local, sharing ancestry with Latin-speaking neighbours.

The Iron Age Etruscan population was genetically local, sharing ancestry with Latin-speaking neighbours.

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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)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Etruscan is a survivor of a pre-Indo-European language of Italy, spoken there before Indo-European languages arrived…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEBB3AB114/etruscan-is-a-survivor-of-a-pre-indo-european-language-of)

Supports1 for, none 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

SRC

[The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJ8749HZ/the-origin-and-legacy-of-the-etruscans-through-a-2000-year)

Posth et al. 2021

SRC

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