Etruscan language facts for kids
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The Cippus Perusinus, a stone tablet bearing 46 lines of incised Etruscan text, one of the longest extant Etruscan inscriptions. 3rd or 2nd century BC.
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| Native to | Ancient Etruria | |||
| Region | Italian Peninsula | |||
| Extinct | >AD 180linglist | |||
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Tyrsenian?
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| Writing system | Old Italic script | |||
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The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscans in the ancient area of Etruria (what is now Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Latium) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (where the Gauls took the place of the Etruscans), in Italy.
Inscriptions have been found in northwestern and west-central Italy in the region that still has a name that came from the Etruscans, Tuscany (from Latin tusc "Etruscans") and in Latium, north of Rome, in Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po Valley to the north of Etruria. That is probably the area in Italy in which the language was once spoken.
Images for kids
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Drawing of the inscriptions on the Liver of Piacenza; see haruspex
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Maximum extent of Etruscan civilization and the twelve Etruscan League cities.
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The Pyrgi Tablets, laminated sheets of gold with a treatise both in Etruscan and the Phoenician language, in the Etruscan Museum in Rome
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Tumulus on a street at Banditaccia, the main necropolis of Caere
See also
In Spanish: Idioma etrusco para niños
