Old Italian alphabet

The old Italian alphabet was used to write various languages on the Italian peninsula. It is based on the Greek alphabet in a western variant and was adopted by the Greek settlers in Kyme . It served as the basis for the Latin alphabet and was also used for writing other languages, including a. in a variant for the Etruscan and one for the Venetian language and a number of languages of the Italian branch of the Indo-European language family , u. a. the Oscar language and the Umbrian language .

Unicode implements the old Italian alphabet under the name Old Italic in the range U + 10300 to U + 1032F . The following table uses the characters defined in Unicode and can only be displayed if a suitable font is installed on the computer.

Letter	Unicode	Transliteration	Surname
	?	a	a
	?	b	be
	?	c	ke
	?	d	de
	?	e	e
	?	v	ve
	?	z	ze
	?	H	hey
	?	þ	the
	?	i	i
	?	k	ka
	?	l	el
	?	m	em
	?	n	en
	?	š	esh
	?	O	O
	?	p	pe
	?	ś	she
	?	q	ku
	?	r	he
	?	s	it
	?	t	te
	?	u	u
	?	x	eks
	?	ph	phe
	?	ch	khe
	?	f	ef
	?	ř	ers
	?	ç	che
	?	í	ii
	?	ú	uu
character	Unicode	Roman number	value
	?	I.	1
	?	V	5
	?	X	10
	?	L.	50

It is often assumed that the Germanic runic writing developed from the North Etruscan variant of this alphabet or the Alpine alphabets derived from it (Venetian, Rhaetian, Lepontic alphabet).

Web links

Commons : Etruscan alphabet - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Section 14.2: Old Italic (PDF; 326 kB) The Unicode Standard 5.0
Code Chart Old Italic . (PDF; 55 kB) The Unicode Standard 5.0