The Etruscan Language. what was it?

For the large slab with Etruscan writing on it:

For the map of early Italy's peoples:

For the Etruscan City-state map

For the Language family map of Etruscan and related langauges:

[ahavatar]

Excellent! You can easily pronounce the Etruscan "ch" sound like in "zichuche" ("he wrote"), as you pronounce Ll in Welsh! I am aware that the Latins "inherited" so much of the Etruscan culture and showed no gratitude to them (Romans willingly destroyed the oeuvre by Emperor Claudius about Etruscan history and language). Etruscans had come from Anatolia long before Rome was even a place. I was born in Bologna, Italy, and when I learned that it was an Etruscan settlement named Phelsina, I did feel the Etruscan soul shine through the centuries 😊 Thank you!

[pabloalvez]

Etruscan was not an isolated language at all. It was closely related to Rhaetic and Lemnian, forming its own language family, the Tyrsenian Family.

[tedi]

Thank you Ben, that is very interesting

[dafyddthomas]

Etruscans did NOT invent the letter F.
Ancient Greek used the letter digamma spelt F for the sound W
Athenian Greek dropped the sound W in the spoken language and eventually dropped the letter

[rhiannonfugatt]

How interesting the word used for gods, Aesir is the name of the gods in the Norse Yggdrasil tree that live in the realm of Asgard

[marsi]

The Raetic were slavic Serbs. In old german books it says that this were the "Raizen" which are the Serbs. In Raetia you have a lot of slavic Toponyms like Zernez, Bregenz, Zhuta, Vludenz, Luka and the alps names are HORA which is also slavic. The Bodensee was Lacus Venetus (Windisch See), also slavic name etc. Right next to it we have Vindelicia (Windisch Mark) and Venetia (Vends, Veneti). Go and check the name RASNA on google earth, and you will see that this name you will only find in slavic countries. The venecians called them RASSIANI (RASEJANI means in Serbian the THE SCATTERED ONES ;) Put in google translator Serbian-English and put in "RASEJANI Check the Sardinian Genetic and its the same like Balkan Slavic people (I2a). etc etc Still today we have the serbian RASCANI (Raszier, Raciae) etc... In Raetia, Vindelicia and Norikum you have today family names like Raschka, Raska, Rascha, Rasch etc :). People say there were no serbs in that time... Which is absolutely a lie. Robin Melrose writes 2016 that thefirst ancient tribe in Britain could be Serbs (Slavic VENETI from Gallia) founded todays Salisbury (Sorbiodunum = Sorbian Castle) and next to it is Vindogladia and Venta etc. The Stonehenge stones come from the "Preseli Mountains." Preseli means in Serbian to "Move." So "PRESELI MOUNTAINS = PRESELI BRDA) MOVE THE MOUNTAINS :) etc etc etc THAMSE = SLAVIC TAMNO ETC ETC... Serbs were in Sarmati and in Celtic (Noricum, Vindelicia, Raetia etc) we have Sarmati in Triballian Tribe which was a (Germans, Celtic and Sarmatian) tribe. People have to stop thinking that we didn't have slavic people before 600 AD CHR on the Balkans. This is from the side of RAETIC in my opinion. The other side which is the LEMNIAN, i think was the south of Illyricum people, acient Greeks and Albanians.

[TerezaSlavica]

I don't get why historians always talk of Etruscan language as a unreadable or highly mysterious. Etruscan language is no mystery to Slavic people. We can read and understand it very well, it is based in Slavic language. Austria, east Germany, Italy - Lombardia, Tuscany were inhabited by Slavs, had Slavic culture and language. That is a fact that even historians - quackademics acknolwledge. Originally called Etrusenia, neither isolated nor obsolete, but part of vast "state" stretching from Siberia to Europe, Asia and Americas. One world peacful civilization. Etrussenians were the original Slavic inhabitants of italy before the first reich, the first nazis (roman) came and conquered by force and stole their highly evolved cultrure and knowledge (as they did with second and third reich, today they're trying to have a go at fourth), always trying to slice up Slavic countries and murder Slavs (look at Ukraine Russia conflict).
Slavs can read and understand this etrussenian language.

[maciejzniebuszewa]

Etruscan is a human language, unlike English. Linguistic research has been carried out, the results of which Western researchers, in their arrogance, ignore. The content of Etruscan inscriptions can be understood using the Old Serbian language. Thus, the Erusian language is very similar to the Slovic languages. Even I, although I'm from Poland, can understand the inscription on a ceramic Etruscan mug: "wipij mnie", which means "drink me" in hybrid English

[belginduru]

Etrüskler Adiğelerden çok uzak bir coğrafyada, İtalya’da yaşamış bir ilk çağ kavmi. Haklarında ayrıntılı bir bilgiye sahip değiliz çünkü henüz dilleri ve yazıları tam olarak çözülebilmiş değil. Tarih onları M.Ö ikinci binde birden bire İtalya kıyılarında ortaya çıkmış, gelişmiş şehirler kurmuş, özgün bir yazı ve farklı bir kültür geliştirmiş sonra esrarengiz bir şekilde tarih sahnesinden silinmiş bir kavim olarak yazıyor. Tarihe en büyük etkileri de Roma medeniyetinin oluşumuna kaynaklık etmeleri. Ayrıca soyadı sistemini ilk kullanan halk olmaları, mimaride kemer ve kemerli tavanı keşfetmeleri, şehircilik alanındaki yetenekleri, kadının ilk çağ toplumlarında benzeri görülmeyecek şekilde ayrıcalıklı bir yere sahip olması onlara ait sayabileceğimiz bazı özelliklerdir.
Etrüsk adının etimolojisini inceleyenler onu “Turs” kelimesine dayandırarak Yunanca “Tyrsenos” sözcüğüyle ilişkilendirmeye çalışıyorlar. Fakat bu kanı kesin hüküm teşkil edecek kadar kuvvetli değil. Kelimenin orijinini “Türk” adında arayanlar bile var ama bu da bilimsellikten uzak bir varsayım.
Onlar hakkında ilk tarihi verileri Herodot’ta bulabiliyoruz. Tarihin babası sayılan bu büyük düşünüre göre Lidya kralı Ates devrinde ülkede büyük bir kıtlık baş gösterir ve Lidya halkının yarısı denizi geçerek Umr ilinde yurt tutarlar. Gittikleri yerde on iki şehir kuran bu halk başkanları Turs’un adıyla anılırlar. Etrüskler işte bu göçmenlerin çocuklarıdır. Yine Herodot’tan öğrendiğimize göre İtalya’nın ilk medeni sakinleri olan Etrüskler on iki kola ayrılıyor, komşu kavimlerden farklı ve zor bir dil kullanıyorlar. Toplumsal yapıları özgün bir aristokrasi sergiliyor. Demir ve bakır işlemedeki maharetleri onları kısa zamanda çevrelerindeki halklara karşı baskın kılıyor. En bariz özellikleri de kadınların erkeklerle aynı haklara sahip olmaları, köle edinebilmeleri, yönetici olmaları, kadın yaşantısındaki renklilik, kadın giyim şekli ve makyaj tarzında kendisini gösteriyor. Etrüskler bu özelliklerinden dolayı çağdaşları olan Yunanlılar tarafından eleştirilmekte, kınanmaktaydılar.
Herodot’tan dört asır sonra yaşayan Halikarnaslı Dionis, Etrüsk ve Lidya halkı arasında töre ve dil benzerliği olmadığı gerekçesiyle onların küçük Asyalı olma ihtimalini reddeder ve onların İtalya’ya kuzeyden gelmiş olduğunu savunur. Dionis’e göre Etrüskler kendilerine “Rasena” diyor. Bu kelime Adiğe dilinin fonetik bilgisi ışığında incelendiğinde “-ina” ekinin Adiğece’de dişillik ifade ettiği ortaya çıkar. Adiğece kadın isimleri genellikle “-ina” ekiyle biter. Barina, Kurina, Jane, Satenay vs gibi. Etrüskçe kadın, eş manasına kullanılan kelimenin “puina” olması da ayrı bir ilginçlik.
Dil

Etrüskler’in İtalya’nın otokton halkı olmadığı kesinleşmiş bir gerçek onlar nereden geldiler ve nereye gittiler sorusuna cevap teşkil etmek üzere çeşitli varsayımlar ileri sürülmüş ama en fazla kabul gören iddia Thompson adlı bir tarihçi tarafından “On the Officites of the Etrusk Language” adlı eserde dile getiriliyor. Thompson’a göre Etrüskler ancak ve ancak Kafkasyalı olabilir. Bir diğer Etrüsk araştırmacısı Trombeti de bu varsayımı gerçekçi buluyor. Büyük filolog Georges Dumesil ise Roma uygarlığında harcı olan üç etnisiteyi Latinler, Etrüskler ve Sabinler olarak adlandırırken Etrüsk söylenceleriyle Kafkas destanları arasında çekinerek de olsa bağlantılar kurmaya çalışır.
Bu tarz düşünen bilim adamlarının temel hareket noktası Etrüsk ve Adiğe dili arasındaki enteresan benzerlik. Etrüskçe büyük ölçüde çözülememiş bir Avrupai dil. İndo-Cermen dil ailesinden olması kuvvetle muhtemelse de bazı yönleriyle bu gruptan ayrılıyor. Filologların Azyanik dediği Kafkas dil ailesiyle benzeşen yönleri var. bugünkü Latin alfabesinin temelini teşkil eden Etrüsk alfabesinde dördü sesli yirmi harf var. isim ve sıfatlarda erillik dişilli özellikleri görülüyor. Suffix (sonek) ağırlıklı bir dil ve prefix (önek) pek yok. Sessiz harfler dile hakim ve (tl) gibi özgün sesler var. M.Ö ikinci yüzyıla doğru çözülmeye başladığını gördüğümüz Etrüskçe M.S 7-8. Yüzyılda tamamen yok olduğuna göre hemen ardından yarımadayı saran İtalyanca’yı etkilememesi mümkün görünmüyor.
Adiğece’yi ele aldığımızda ise bu dilin tüm lehçelerinde elliye yakın ses olduğunu ( harf değil, ses ) ancak dört adet sesli harfin kullanıldığını görüyoruz. Telaffuzunun güçlüğü ve özgün seslerin fazlalığı bu dilin yazıyla ifade edilmesini zorlaştırıyor. Bildiğimiz en eski yazılı metinler ve destanlar Adiğe dilinin ilk şeklini büyük ölçüde muhafaza ettiğini gösteriyor. Erillik dişillik özellikle Abhaz ve Ubıkh dillerinde bariz bir şekilde görülüyor. Yine mahsus ses olarak (tl) sesi belirgin. Kafkas dillerinin İndo Cermen dillerle benzerlik taşımakla birlikte tam olarak bu gruba sokulamayacağı dil bilimcilerin genel kabulüdür.
Bulabildiğimiz bazı Etrüskçe kelimeler ve karşılıkları şöyle;
Adiğece Etrüskçe Türkçe
———– ———– ————–
Jıale clan delikanlı
Pşaşe sec kız
Ate – Ade-ati baba

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[ersinaktas]

The person who did the greatest research on the Etruscan language is the linguist Mario Alinei; he wrote a book called ''gli etruschi erano turchi''. Mario Alinei is one of the greatest linguists living today. there is no point in curling, it has been proven that Etruscan is related to Turkish.

[kelechialozie]

Talitha means damsel in Aramaic
Interesting
@Ben Llywelyn

[levelFM]

Interesting video.

However, the way of pronouncing the Etruscan letters TH, PH, CH and Z does not match up with English.
The Etruscans clearly distinguished between aspirated and non-aspirated consonants (either with- or without a puff of air)
The TH was a hard T like in "Tip", not the th-sound as in "Think"
PH was a hard P like in "Pack", not the PH or f-sound as in "Phrasebook" or "Film".
CH was a hard K, too. Like the k-sound in "King".
The letter Z was most likely a TS-sound as in "Bits" and not like the z in "Zoo".

They didn't even used the letter "O". In borrowings from Greek they changed all the O's to "U". Thus Apollo became Apulu or Aplu. Prometheus became Prumathe etc.

Fun fact: the Etruscan name for "girl" was borrowed from the Semitic languages (Aramaic) "Talitha".
The Semitic expression used by Jesus Christ at the time he resurrected Jairus’ daughter. It means, “Maiden, I say to you, Get up!” ("Talitha Koum" in Aramaic" (Mark 5:41).

[AFK_AFK]

@BenLlywelyn very interesting civilization they are. Their language is not Indo-European and according to Heredotus their roots coming from Anatolia. But even if they came from Anatolia; those times there may have Indo-European language. So is there a chance they are Turkic and their language Uralic?

[seankessel]

Where do you think they got "aesir" from as a term for the gods? The timelines & etymologies don't seem to make a borrowing possible - in either direction - from Germanic. Maybe just pure coincidence?

Not to mention "mi"

[Redhand]

This was fascinating. I was surprised by some other videos I saw (not here) that suggested Etruscian was now legible, but the truth appears to be that it's only partially legible at best. I'm going to give this video another listen to understand your information better.

[gaborbardocz]

Hi! An Italian hystorist's opinion: Etrusks came from Carpatian basin long times ago. But, who knows?!

[TerezaSlavica]

Etruscan - Etrassenian language is an old proto-Slavic (IndoAryan) language sharing many individual letters and souds with Balkan languages, with Russian azbuka, with Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Slovenian and even old Coptic and Russian-Greek orthodox style language, Sanskrt and on and on. These are mixture of azbuka and old ancient Slavic alphabets (many words in Sanskrt identical to Slavic). Also the language of Rousillon (Lang d'Oc Rousillon literally means the language of Rassenians) in southern France is of the same cultrure (Rassenian), the language of Katars (theirs is a fascinating story). Etrassenian language, therefore, is fully legible and if read out loud is perfectly understandable by many Slavic people without a need for translation. If you have any Slavic persons around, go ahead and test it. There are many books on this subject, disecting each Etrassenian inscripton letter by letter, word by word, being easily "deciphered" and understood. I have such books, I can post the titles. Also there is a YT channel looking into history that doesn't match the official narrative, including a part on Etrassenia. I can post it if you are interested. All makes perfect sense if you start thinking outside of the box.
The true history is unknown to us. Maybe we can have an understanding of the past 150 years (even that is vague) at the most but anything before then is just a fabricated wild story as written for us by jezuit Josef Scaliger in the 1500's the person who gave us the "correct" history and chronology. The fabricated narratives are told in scattered separation without wide context and driven by quackademia and taught at scholls as truth and fact. It is anything but.
But some people can and have pieced it together, there are many historians and authors being censored, discredited and driven out of quackademia for having different opinion. Yet their take on our human story is fascinating and valid mostly because it is not driven by any outside interest nor it is financed by quackademia.
The story of human race is stranger than your wildest imagination and nothing is as it seems. Once you get it, see it and realize it you can not unsee it. It is literally like waking up from a sleep.
Ben, greetings from magical mysterious and magnificent Prague, the heart of Slavic regions, Bohemia, a culture full of alchemy, spirituality, transformation, symbols, herritage, nature and deep knowledge in our hearts .

[armandemsha]

Un or Une or Mu in Albanian meaning Me
Ca or Ka meaning have
The hips in Albanian meaning Beli
Phersu-Mask or perde-curtain in Persian
Satnal (nal or mu nal)meaning stop or to stop
Truri-Brain
This words are from Geg dialect Albanian
This are some words that have no connection with surrounding people
We Albanians believe that our ancestry is from the DarDan people the ancient Greeks historians claimed that the DarDans and Trojans were related
It’s good to do more research

[ivaylotzokov]

I found that thracian people called thracians by greeks are actually etruscian people. i will tell you why am i right . Because if you make your own research to the treasures found in my country Bulgaria you will understand. Here were found the oldest golden book of etruscian people. Thracians are from
Asia, so etruscans tooo. They are the same people. Here in Bulgaria were found the oldest golden treasure in the world. So you can make your own research about connection between these "two" people etruscians and "thracians". I am not scientist, but i am unterested about ancient history and archeology so i had red a lot of information.

[tanjudermanl]

Thank you very much for this awesome video...! Order: Etruscan=Turkic=Turkish Mini=meni=Beni, Un/U/O, Une/Onge/Ona, Unu/Sen/Sen etc. seems very similar to me....But the numbers are totally different from Turkish, maybe they have their number names/system from another culture? The DNA analysis says that Etruscans are relative with Anatolian Turks. Is it possible that the Etruscans were Prototurks? There are a lot of unanswered questions for sure. How similar is the Alphabet system between Orhun/Göktürk and Etruscan Alphabet? That would be a very good comparison imo. I love your researches very much. Greetings from Turkey ❤🧡💛💚