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Etruscan Decipherment: Translation of Etruscan Inscriptions

Etruscan Decipherment: Translation of Etruscan Inscriptions

Paperback

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1530220955
ISBN13: 9781530220953
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 27 2016
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For the first time, Etruscan Decipherment presents the beauty and complexity of Etruscan literature. The resulting texts embrace a range of topics that evince linguistic mastery. Translation was made possible by the discovery of a hundred bilingual inscriptions in an older script called Old European. The language is Finnish, once spoken throughout Europe. The script is a syllabary with over seventy different combinations of consonants and vowels. Because it is a syllabary, each letter spells a word, which means that even a short inscription expands into a long sentence.

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