# A Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet (Hitz)

> Still possible: The tablets record a Celtic language of about 300 BC to AD 100 in an alphabet derived from Etruscan and Lepontic models.

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Answer · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

# A Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet (Hitz)

The tablets record a Celtic language of about 300 BC to AD 100 in an alphabet derived from Etruscan and Lepontic models.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Hitz's sign values, applied to tablets he did not use to build the system, yield Gaulish words and names recognised by Celtic philologists.
- The sign sequences show the statistics of a natural language.
- Inscribed tablets give concordant Iron Age dates when signs are shown to be cut before firing.

## What would rule it out

- A held-out test of Hitz's values on tablets outside his corpus produces no Gaulish readable to independent Celticists.
- Corpus-wide statistics match random draws from an alphabet table.
- The tablets Hitz reads are dated to the Middle Ages or the twentieth century with signs cut before firing.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Hitz's alphabet is built from attested Lepontic and Etruscan letter forms and yields readings such as nemu Chlausei…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDYBEBK6AZ/hitzs-alphabet-is-built-from-attested-lepontic-and-etruscan)

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[No Celtic epigrapher has accepted Hitz's readings, which require 40 to 50 ligature and geminate signs assigned case by…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDYARQQM9X/no-celtic-epigrapher-has-accepted-hitzs-readings-which)

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## The questions it answers

[Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)

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