# After more than a century of combinatory work about 250 words are secure, and the long texts still cannot be…

> After more than a century of combinatory work about 250 words are secure, and the long texts still cannot be translated sentence by sentence.

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

# After more than a century of combinatory work about 250 words are secure, and the long texts still cannot be…

After more than a century of combinatory work about 250 words are secure, and the long texts still cannot be translated sentence by sentence.

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## What it means

Key question[How far can the combinatory method and computational analysis extend the roughly 250 securely understood Etruscan words?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYMXF5X5P/how-far-can-the-combinatory-method-and-computational)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[The combinatory method, applied systematically to the whole corpus, can still add secure meanings, and it is the only…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEBFT5WB66/the-combinatory-method-applied-systematically-to-the-whole)

Bears on1 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 1

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Run a distributional (co-occurrence and position) analysis over the Larth/OpenEtruscan corpora restricted to pre-1991 ET texts, propose meanings for frequent unglossed words, and score them on the c. 1,100 texts added in ET 2014 as a held-out set.

~20 h

[On: How far can the combinatory method and computational analysis extend the roughly 250 securely understood Etruscan words?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYMXF5X5P/how-far-can-the-combinatory-method-and-computational)

**—** not judged

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

## Sources 2

[Review of Gerhard Meiser (ed.), Etruskische Texte, Editio minor, 2., erweiterte Auflage](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKQKV1P8R/review-of-gerhard-meiser-ed-etruskische-texte-editio-minor-2)

Weiss 2016

SRC

[The Etruscan Language: An Introduction. Revised edition](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM0VDSX35/the-etruscan-language-an-introduction-revised-edition)

Bonfante 2002

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). After more than a century of combinatory work about 250 words are secure, and the long texts still cannot be… [Evidence EVD0DEECMW76YM0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEECMW76YM0
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