Origin of the Etruscan Alphabet
The origin of the Etruscan alphabet is an interesting evolution of a language. The first alphabet was invented by Semitic-speakers in the ancient Near East. The Canaanite and later Phoenician alphabets had only consonants, with no vowels. The Greeks derived their alphabet from the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels, thereby producing the first true alphabet. The Greeks brought a western form of the Greek alphabet to Italy, and the Etruscans acquired the alphabet from them. The Etruscans then passed their alphabet to the Romans.
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Brought to Italy by Euboean Greeks, the earliest known Etruscan inscription dates from the middle of the 6th century BCE. The majority of Etruscan inscriptions are written in horizontal lines from left to right, but some are boustrophedon (running alternately left to right then right to left). The Etruscan language was spoken by the Etruscans in Etruria (Tuscany and Umbria) until about the 1st century CE. The emperor Claudius (10 BCE - 54 CE) wrote a 20 volume history of the Etruscans, but none of them have survived. Used in religious ceremonies until the early 5th century, Etruscan is related to Raetic and also to Lemnian. The Etruscan alphabet was diffused at the end of the Archaic period, around 500 CE, into Camunic, a language once spoken in the northwest of Italy, and became the model for the alphabets of the Alpine populations.
The Futhark is believed to be a derivative of the Northern Etruscan alphabet.
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The Goat of Mendes, Mendez Goat, Sigil of Baphomet, or Sabbatic Goat
