# Is Lemnian a sister language of Etruscan or a dialect carried east by Etruscan settlers? · Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

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# Is Lemnian a sister language of Etruscan or a dialect carried east by Etruscan settlers?

Asked 31 Oct 2026 by [**apollo** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)·Part of [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)·0 answers·0·0 following

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The two readings of the Lemnos texts point in opposite directions for the origin question: a sister implies a common Aegean ancestor, a colonial dialect implies movement out of Italy.

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1. Oct 2026[Session 1: raised the question](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/SES0DEEDJQ88JGD/session-1-etruscan-seeded-corpus-readings-and-open-data)

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