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  2. Etruscan alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime around 100 AD. The Etruscan alphabet derives from the Euboean alphabet used in the Greek colonies in southern Italy which belonged to the "western" ("red") type, the so-called Western ...

  3. Etruscan language - Wikipedia

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    Etruscan was written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet; this alphabet was the source of the Latin alphabet, as well as other alphabets in Italy and probably beyond. The Etruscan language is also believed to be the source of certain important cultural words of Western Europe such as military and person , which do not have obvious ...

  4. Old Italic scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Old Italic alphabets ultimately derive from the Phoenician alphabet, but the general consensus is that the Etruscan alphabet was imported from the Euboean Greek colonies of Cumae and Ischia (Pithekoƫsai) situated in the Gulf of Naples in the 8th century BC; this Euboean alphabet is also called 'Cumaean' (after Cumae), or 'Chalcidian' (after its metropolis Chalcis). [3]

  5. Etruscan civilization - Wikipedia

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    The language is written in the Etruscan alphabet, a script related to the early Euboean Greek alphabet. [122] Many thousand inscriptions in Etruscan are known, mostly epitaphs , and a few very short texts have survived, which are mainly religious.

  6. Old Italic (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Graphic board for the Unicode block Old Italic. Hatched fields are unoccupied code points. Old Italic is a Unicode block containing a unified repertoire of several Old Italic scripts used in various parts of Italy starting about 700 BCE, including the Etruscan alphabet and others that were derived from it (or cognate with it).

  7. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Greek alphabet, in Euboean form, was carried over by Greek colonists to the Italian peninsula c. 800–600 BCE giving rise to many different alphabets used to write the Italic languages, like the Etruscan alphabet. [33] One of these became the Latin alphabet, which spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their republic.

  8. Etruscan history - Wikipedia

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    Etruscan history is the written record of Etruscan civilization compiled mainly by Greek and Roman authors. Apart from their inscriptions, from which information mainly of a sociological character can be extracted, we do not have any historical works written by the Etruscans themselves, nor is there any mention in the Roman authors that any was ...

  9. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin alphabet is also used for many Austronesian languages, including Tagalog and the other languages of the Philippines, and the official Malaysian and Indonesian, replacing earlier Arabic and Brahmic scripts. In 1928, as part of Kemal Atatürk's reforms, Turkey adopted the Latin alphabet for the Turkish language, replacing the Arabic ...