About the Etruscan language

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The Etruscans are often described as mysterious for many reasons. Their origins are unclear and their language is still not entirely deciphered. Greek and Roman historians regarded them as pirates and frivolous people and did not give their culture the credit it deserved. That’s why till these days in schools we study Greek history and then jump straight to Rome. But there was a very important piece in-between these two - the Etruscan civilisation - which in many ways shaped Rome.

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[frankrault]

You always manage to go deeper into language subject, weaving them in a fabric of contexts that make me watch from the first minute to the last! My sincere compliments!

[metroplexprime]

I'm just hoping that, as we x-ray and digitally unroll more scrolls from the library of herculaneum, we eventually find a copy of Claudius' guide to Etruscan history and language.

[torturachina]

I LONGED for a video like this about the Etruscans. Thanks a lot Julie

[sojolly]

Another great video Julie. Your grasp of languages and your interest in them is similar to my interest in electronics and electromagnetism. Thanks for translating another language to understandable content.

[igortrutanow]

Thank you, Julia! A great video. Regards from Toronto.

[dukeon]

I love all your videos, Julie. I’m obsessed with languages, especially philology. Non Indo-European languages in Europe are especially fascinating. Thank you so much!

[sourovdas]

3:00 No Herodotus was RIGHT! As an indian i can confirm that we all have farms of massive gold digger ant so that we can earn and feed ourselves.

[C_In_Outlaw]

Love your content Julie . You’re the best 😊

[Gezira]

A notable characteristic of their culture is that in funerary paintings and sculptures women and men are depicted as equals, at the same height and in the same dimensions. Then the famous Etruscan smile of the couple.

[migueldeuna]

About the similarities between "Teresh" and Rasena. They're actually similar.
1) the "e" between Egyptian consonants are just placeholders egyptologists put for sounds we don't know (normally vowels).
2) the T is used in Egyptian as in many other Afro-Asiatic languages part of a particle (t3) used to express the "land" or "people" of/from.
3) that leaves us t(3?)-r(_?)sh(_?). So somewhat as "ta-rashena" would not be out of the question. Still a very fringe idea and I'm not a linguist and Egyptian more than a single language is a group of them over 5000 years.

[radiojet]

One of your best videos. Brava, Julie! I like your evidence-based approach coupled with plausible speculation. The graphics work very well

[yasminadanceco]

I love all of your videos, but the music was really distracting in this one. Don’t let anything take away from your presentation and keep up the good work.

[krunomrki]

Interesting DNA results. However, the greatest diversity of clades and subclades of haplogroups is in the country of origin of certain haplogroup, but due to the "founder effect" the biggest concentration of certain haplogroups is in the country/land of colonisation, in this case in Balkans among South Slavic peoples. And smaller percentage means that contributors/ancestors were living in more distant past, and larger shares meaning more recent ancestors. And, test by some other companies could possibly have different results. I love your videos. (My final thesis at the history department was about Etruscan origins according to the Herodotus). One more curiosity: the letter for voice /f/ in shape of number 8 in Etruscan alphabet it is the same as in Lydian alphabet. And when I have done the analysis of the Lemnos stelae, I 've discovered that some words there were borrowed from neighbouring Lydian language. And there is an excellent book dealing with ancient languages : "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient languages" (I have version from 2004)... The only language where I found the connection with Etruscan numerals is ancient Hurritic or Hurrian language number 3: kiq towards Etruscan "ci" /ki/. Some Russian linguists proposed connection with languages of Caucasus. In his work, in chapter unrelated to Tyrsenoi, Herodotus wrote about the city which was in his time named "Tetrapolis" and previously was known as "Hyttenia". From this is remarkable similarity with Etruscan number "huth" meaning four (4). From work of Thucydides we can find out that, in the time when author has lived (second half of 5th century BC), in peninsula Khalkidike in northern Aegean (with 3 big "fingers") in some of cities were living Pelasgians among which majority were "Tyrrhenoi"; also, the inhabitants of Lemnos according to the Thucydides were "Tyrrhenoi". Herodotus wrote that before conquest of island by the Athenians in cca. year 505 BC under leadership of Miltiades (same guy known later from battle of Marathon in 490 BC), the inhabitants of the island were "Pelasgians", having two cities on the island. Greetings from Croatia, home to the longest known Etruscan manuscript in the world ...

[victorsong]

Mario Alinei (10 August 1926 – 9 August 2018) was an Italian linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Utrecht (Holland), where he taught from 1959 to 1987. He was an Etruscan scholar and linguist.
He has found some interesting stuff and language relationships, that many find disturbing and vehemently deny - even without the proper credentials, research and knowledge - like the ones Alinei actually had...
Some non-Italian people who don't know even three Etruscan words but called themselves "linguist" have called him a "crackpot", in spite that he was an EXPERT Etruscan linguist and was a professor at one of the most prestigious universities of the world for 28 years...

Virtually all of his detractors do not have anywhere near Alinei's credentials, his knowledge, nor the decades length and breadth of his research.

[aquenwisey]

When I was a kid that loved science, I had discovery channel, but now that I still love science I have YouTuber like this that make content even better.

[Jean-FrancoisBilodeau]

Thank you! The Etruscans are underappreciated.

[AntonioTorcoli]

Excellent content . Congratulations from Volterra / Velathri

[a.ham.]

Keeping in mind that this is the act of a friend - 1200 BC is 'twelve-hundred', not 'twelve-thousand'. 12, 000 BC would be very old indeed for a large-scale Mediterranean culture.

[stefanmargraf]

Those statues and paintings show unusal human beauty. And i am able to see etruscan descendands in the streets of Italy. Some people show the same characteristics in their face.

[raminagrobis]

I'm very glad to have discovered this channel. Absolutely riveting presentation with extremely clear and compelling reasoning. Having studied Roman civilization for many decades, I welcomed an updating on what is actually known about the Etruscan language and its origins and relations. Now, I'll check this video about Hungarian culture she mentioned.