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Sparky's American Epigraphy - Alternative Prehistory!
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- The problem of Etruscan origins is encapsulated in the peculiarity of the language, which is different from any other in Italy or in Europe. Unlike all the other languages of Europe, except for Basque, Hungarian and Finnish, Etruscan does not belong to the great Indo-European family of languages spoken from around 4000 BCE by groups of people migrating from a region in central Europe around the Baltic area, as far east as India and as far west as Ireland. The only known related language is that preserved in a remarkable inscription (picture on right: Stone stele from Lemnos, 6th century BCE, Athens, National Museum), written in an alphabet and language akin to Etruscan on a stele with the figure of a warrior, found in 1885 at Kaminia on the northern Aegean island of Lemnos and dated to the late sixth century BCE. It has 98 letters, forming 33 words. In 1928 Italian archaeologists in Lemnos found similar fragmentary inscriptions on sherds of locally made pottery. These were of vital importance, for they showed that the language was actually spoken in Lemnos: the stele had not been imported from elsewhere in the Mediterranean. We know, therefore, that a dialect close to Etruscan was spoken at Lemnos before the Athenian conquest of the island in the second half of the sixth century BCE. This dialect was different from all other languages spoken in the area. We do not know, however, how and when it came to be spoken there.
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