Langenesis

Tyrsenian family

Etruscan

c. 700 BCE – 50 CE Extinct

Etruscan (c. 700 BCE – 50 CE) is an extinct Tyrsenian language. Lineage: Proto-Tyrsenian → Etruscan.

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ISO 639-3
ett
Glottocode
etru1241

Language of the Etruscan civilisation of central Italy, written in a Greek- derived alphabet from ~700 BCE. Replaced by Latin by the 1st century CE; still partly understood.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Tyrsenianc. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  2. Etruscanc. 700 BCE – 50 CE

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Tyrsenian.

Sources