Etruscan Language

[KerbalHub]

As a native Etruscan speaker, I approve of your pronounciation

[ashwinnmyburgh]

here is a possible translation for this I found: This temple and (this) statue have been dedicated to Uni / Astarte. Thefariei Velianas, head of the community, donated it for the worship of our peoples. This gift of this temple and sanctuary and the consecration of its boundaries during his three year term in the month of Xurvar (June?) in this way, and in Alsase (July?) this record together with the divinity/statue shall thus be buried by order of the Zilach that the years may outlast the stars.

[tadimaggio]

Given that no one today understands Etruscan, the man we just heard might have been saying: "I pushed my mother-in-law in front of a chariot, but the old bat could move quicker than I gave her credit for."

[RobinHood-twse]

What's interesting about the Etruscans is that, despite their language being unrelated to Indo-European ones, the Etruscans themselves were genetically the same as the Indo-European Italic peoples of Italy. Etruscan is one of the few historically documented non-Indo-European languages of Western Europe, the other being Basque. Though, of course, Proto-Indo-European was native to Eastern Europe.

[nosecamos]

Very nice! It's well known that etruscan languagem is dead a very long time ago and it's knowledge was not preserved as were latin or ancient greek and that the knowledge of etruscan language were not yet recovered as were ancient egyptian. It's a big surprise that the recovery of etruscan is already made. P.S.: I'm sorry if I'm saying something stupid or inaccurate.

[alessiorenzoni]

🇮🇹A fair number of Etruscan words had entered the lexicon of the Latin language, some of which destined for an illustrious and fortunate future such as atrium, favissa, fullo, histrio, lanista, mantissa, miles, mundus, persona, populus, radius, satelles, subulo, etc. Well, it is evident and logical that for us moderns it is possible to deepen to some extent our knowledge of the Etruscan language also by referring to the lexical and toponymic and even phonetic relics that have been preserved to us by the Tuscan dialects, by some Italian dialects and above all by the Latin language.
Indeed, if we refer chiefly to some of the aforementioned Etruscan names, which were pregnant with considerable cultural values, such as miles, mundus, persona, populus, radius, satelles and which entered the Latin language first and later in the neo-Latin languages ​​and even in some important Germanic languages, such as English and German, the legitimate conclusion can be drawn that, albeit to a very modest extent, the Etruscan language has not completely disappeared, but is still operating in today's world culture framework. Some of those words "circulate" still throughout the terrestrial planet and in particular the word satellite "revolves" around it also in a concrete sense, that is physical-astral.

[pabloalvez]

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

[etruscanetwork]

So sad we can't learn to speak it fluently...

[winningtechnique]

Sounds like a mixture between Romanian and Lithuanian.

[StrawberryMilkkTeaa]

Very beautiful language. It sounds like a mix of ancient languages — Proto-Celtic, ancient Egyptian and Latin.

[ticvas]

A Serb deciphered the Etruscan script.

The names of Etruscan settlements, such as Polatera, Sena, Bada, Rusele, Aretium, Volsini, Volci (vuci - wolf), Kosa, Svana (Sovana), Bieda, Cera (Kera)... It is easy to transcribe them into Serbian without editing.
Svetislav Bilbija deciphered the Etruscan script using the Serbian Cyrillic script. When he saw the Etruscan works in the museum, he could immediately understand what was written.
The Romans and Latins inherited the complete culture, religion and skill of inherit from the Etruscans. The Etruscan art of divination based on the observation of animal livers was called Haruspicium(hara) from the word Hara or Žgara, which is the Serbian word for entrails, another name was DISCIPLINE ETRUSKA. the question arises why the Romans called the Rasenes (Rascia, part of Serbia, there is a town of Raska) Etruscans, because we know that the Rasenes called themselves Rasenes.
the liver(JETRA Serbian )was also observed for daily needs, looking at the liver of small animals (chickens), I believe that the cosmos is reflected in the liver, then alive is the old Serbian diminutive (jETRUSKA) from which ETRUSKA comes later.
jETRA - jETRUSKA - ETRUSKA
Another proof is the footwear, thay wear opanka (opanke, Serbian footwear) on their footwear, sculptures and frescoes. Etruscan work was placed on the she-wolf being sucked by the twins later in the Renaissance, through it we approach the oldest cults of Rasena, where the wolf represents the first Etruscan. maybe now it's time to adopt: man is a wolf to man. the wolf is the progenitor of the tribe, so it originally had a completely different meaning, a kind of cult password.

[alessiorenzoni]

🇮🇹A century ago, the scholar Massimo Pallottino introduced a revolutionary concept, capable of effectively explaining the birth of the Etruscan people, or rather of abandoning the idea by adopting a different concept: that of the formation of the Etruscans as we know them.

Profound changes characterized the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age. Many Egyptian and Greek documents, for example, speak of mysterious peoples of the sea, travelers, with the custom of building land-based settlements for trade.

Probably the Etruscan culture (more than the Etruscans as a real people) was formed over time precisely in these exchanges between sea and land, enriching peoples who actually came from Lydia or similar areas with elements and diversity.

Certainly there is still a lot to discover, and despite Pallottine's idea, the "Etruscan mystery" still remains obscure.

[alessiorenzoni]

🇮🇹Albanian is an Indo-European and Balkan language.
Etruscan is an indigenous Tyrrhenian language.
Moreover, in no place where the Etruscans have ever been there have never been Albanians. There are many Etruscan words passed into Latin and from there to modern languages. But Etruscan has nothing to do with any Indo-European language.
Then no people were as isolated as one might think, some words traveled with trade and therefore will be common in several languages.
Much of the confusion surrounding Albanian origin is rooted in the Albanian language. Albanians have always been a bit "weird" in the sense that they are a non-Slavic, non-Roman and non-Greek people living in an area known as the crossroads of Europe for a reason.
The Albanian language is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Only three languages ​​in the Indo-European language tree make up isolated languages ​​- including Armenian and Greek, as well as Albanian.
This means that: While Albanian is somewhat related to all Indo-European languages, it has no closest relatives, as the Germanic or Slavic languages ​​have to each other. It is simply the last surviving member of a largely extinct branch of Indo-European, the Balkan branch.
Almost 60% of the Albanian vocabulary consists of vulgar Latin words borrowed from the Roman period in the Balkans. Albanians did not migrate to the Balkans after Roman rule, as Latin loans prove the Albanian presence in the area. Add to this a dozen ancient Doric Greek loans, dated around 700 BC. (approximate date of foundation of the Doric colony of Epidamnus - known today as Durres - in Albania).
Now add a linguistically interesting connection between Romanian and Albanian (and other Eastern Romance languages, such as Dalmatian): Albanian and Romanian now share up to 150 non-Latin words, indicating Albanian-Romanian contact before the arrival of the Slavs (or even the Romans).
Who were the Illyrians?

The Illyrians were an Indo-European people who inhabited the Western Balkans in an area called "Illyria" by the ancient Greeks and "Illyricum" by the Romans. To this day, no one knows whether the Illyrians were a homogeneous ethnic group or whether they were made up of heterogeneous tribes who spoke different but related languages ​​(which is more likely). Some even think that the Illyrians were a group defined regionally, rather than linguistically or ethnically - since all the peoples of ancient Illyria were referred to by the classicizing name of "Illyrian", including Thracian tribes such as the Bryge, probably tribe Italo-Celtic such as the Veneti, or Celtic peoples who arrived in the area from the 4th century BC

The Proto-Illyrians migrated to the Balkans when they formed the eastern Hallstatt culture in Central-Southern Europe in the Late Bronze Age. In the Balkans, they intermingled with pre-Indo-European Neolithic peoples, forming the Illyrians we know - a history similar to that of the Mycenaean Greeks, for example.

The Albanians are almost certainly descended from a tribe that was called "Illyrian" by the Romans and Greeks. But how close they were to other Illyrian peoples is a mystery.

Recent research uniformly agrees that Albanians probably did not originate near the modern Adriatic or Ionian coasts. These areas were, in large part, inhabited by Illyrians, but not by the specific Illyrian tribe from which the Albanians evolved.

The Albanians, according to Malcolm, Hamp, Slocum, Wilkes, Orel, Elsie and Schramm, to name a few, were Romanized in the area between modern North Albania, South Serbia, Western Romania and North Macedonia, corresponding to the ancient area of Dardania. One point in support of this is that, according to Matzinger, the city names of "Nis" (Nish) in South Serbia, "Stip" in North Macedonia, "Skopje" in North Macedonia and "Vucitrn / Vushtrri" in Kosovo have been adopted. in their Slavic forms following the Albanian phonetic rules - strongly implying the presence of the Albanian language in the area during the arrival of the Slavs.
This is the only area that would explain both the linguistic contact with Proto-Romans, the partial Romanization of Albanian through both Western and Eastern Romance Vulgar Latin, and the relative lack of Late Antiquity Greek loanwords into Albanian. The Balkans, during the Roman rule, were divided into two areas by the so-called "Jirecek line". Latin was spoken north of the Jirecek line, Greek was spoken south of the line. The line passed through modern Albania, along the Shkumbin River, and is probably what caused the division of the Albanian Tosk-Gheg dialect in the 5th century.

If Albanians originated in southern Albania, most of the Albanian vocabulary would be Greek. Still, 60% are Latin, showing that Albanians are originally from the north of the line, in the area mentioned above.

Concluding:
A southern Illyrian tribe in ancient Dardania avoided complete Romanization in the Dardania Mountains through a pastoral, semi-nomadic lifestyle and geographic isolation (similar to how the Basques and Welsh avoided Romanization). During this period, contact with Romanized Illyrians and Thracians (Vlachs), as well as the lingua franca Latin north of the Jirecek line, led to Albanian being partially Romanized.
During the Roman era, some of the proto-Albanians settled in the plains near Kruja in Albania, adopting the name "Arbanoi" (Latin: Albanoi) which means "inhabitants of the plains" ("Arberor", the Albanian endonym until to the 18th century) as opposed to "montanari" (meaning "Malesor"). At the time of the Slavic migration, most of the Illyrians, Vlacos and Romanized Albanians were assimilated, leading to a genetic bottleneck that is well documented among the Albanians around 1500 years ago - only very few Albanians survived the Slavic migrations, leading to a founding effect and today's genetic homogeneity of the Albanians.

[Paraglidecrete]

The Marsiliana Tablet Abecedarium (700 BCE) The early Etruscan abecedarium read from left to rite like many Greek alphabets, its like modern greek albabeth, and coresponds to ΨΦΧΥΤΣΡϘ ΜΠΟΞΝΛΚΙΘΗΖF ΕΔΓΒΑ . The Stele of Lemnos (Archaeological Museum of Athens) is mush older, also Solomon Reinach said that the Etruscans are Lydians . Lydia according to Greek genealogy got its name from Lydo son of Foroneus or Zeus and Crete . His brothers Kara and Myso named Karia and Mysia .

[mircea]

Nice 👍🏻
But why the writing is not from the right to left ?

[thenyctomaniac]

Any English translation or is it unknown?

[maciejkulczycki]

At least this pronunciation seems to be correct.

[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.

[alessiorenzoni]

🇮🇹List of Italian names of Etruscan origin:
MALE ETRUSCAN NAMES
Antonio
Aquilino
Arturo
Attilio
Aulo
Camillo
Cassio
Ceciliano
CESARE
Ercole
Mario
Metello
Sergio
Tarquinio
Tosco
Valentino
Virgilio
Virginio
FEMALE ETRUSCAN NAMES
Alba
Amelia
Amelinda
Antonia
Attilia
Aula
Bibiana
Camilla
Cecilia
Cesarina
Lavinia
Lucrezia
Minerva
Tosca
Valentina
Virgilia

[tamjansan]

Try read it using "SRBICA" Alphabet