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Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated5 key questions · 8 questions · 0 answered

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KeyHow far can the combinatory method and computational analysis extend the roughly 250 securely understood Etruscan words?

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Why did the Pyrgi tablets not work as a Rosetta Stone for Etruscan?

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KeyTo which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?

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

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KeyWhat do the Tabula Cortonensis and the Cippus Perusinus record?

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KeyWhat does the Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis say?

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Which months and festivals does the Liber Linteus cover, and in what order?

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KeyWhere did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?

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