etruscan

Even Latin had a lot of Etruscan vocabulary and used the Etruscan alphabet.

But as others have said, short of building a time machine and kidnapping an Etruscan farmer...

In fact the Romans had been using other letters to represent their numbers since Etruscan times.

His writing, reminiscent of Etruscan inscriptions, reveals a stunning world, somewhere between dream and reality, science and imagination.

It's unclear how much influence Old Italic alphabets had on the various Runics though it's generally thought that Etruscan was a shared ancestor.

The Latin alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet, which was based on the Greek alphabet, which was based on the Phoenician alphabet.

Because Etruscan is not related to Greek, and Phoenician was a Semitic language.

An Etruscan shrew has the smallest brain of any mammal, and there might be a threshold of capacity and architecture required for consciousness.

Ventris’ faith in Etruscan was absurd, and I wish the apparently funny story event that disabused him had been related.

> With its Etruscan leonine heads, the façade is the symbol of the fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines.

People with PhDs in Etruscan history from Harvard are elite in the university system, and for every ten of them, there will be one academic job available.

Try the etruscan shrew, they weigh about two grams.

I am really sorry for sounding condescending, but I feel like a scientist at a dinner party mentioning Newtonian dynamics and all of a sudden getting bombarded with insults and strange opinions because it turns out that the other people's backgrounds range from Etruscan religion to Aristotelian "physics".

Via Phoenician (between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Etruscan), the English alphabet is also a bunch of pictograms with reduced pictorial content.

As far as I'm concerned, minority languages are better off going the way of Latin or Etruscan.

Etruscan language) can make available vast data about a community.