# Rex E. Wallace · Person

> Linguist, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of Zikh Rasna and editor of the Etruscan Texts Project. In Etruscan: the readable language that…

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# Rex E. Wallace

Linguist, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of Zikh Rasna and editor of the Etruscan Texts Project

[Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)[2 sources]

Rex E. Wallace is american linguist of the Italic languages at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of the English manual of Etruscan (2008) and lead editor of the online Etruscan Texts Project., and appears in the record of Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated as linguist, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of Zikh Rasna and editor of the Etruscan Texts Project.

Three questions rest in part on what Wallace did or said, among them “How far can the combinatory method and computational analysis extend the roughly 250 securely understood Etruscan words?”, which stands open: 2 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated**

Linguist, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of Zikh Rasna and editor of the Etruscan Texts Project

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)

[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)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[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)Open: 5 answers, none ahead

[What do the Tabula Cortonensis and the Cippus Perusinus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYN46C7BJ/what-do-the-tabula-cortonensis-and-the-cippus-perusinus)Open: no answer ahead yet

## Sources 2

[Zikh Rasna: A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKQRT230M/zikh-rasna-a-manual-of-the-etruscan-language-and)

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[Etruscan Texts Project (ETP): an online edition of Etruscan inscriptions published since 1990](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDPBY9895J/etruscan-texts-project-etp-an-online-edition-of-etruscan)

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American linguist of the Italic languages at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of the English manual of Etruscan (2008) and lead editor of the online Etruscan Texts Project.

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