Tyrsenic languages
The Tyrsenian languages ( Tyrsenian , also Tyrrhenian ), named after the Tyrsenians , are a language family proposed by Helmut Rix (1998), consisting of the Etruscan language , the Rhaetian language and the Lemnian language . Rix estimates the age of the hypothetical original language Proto-Tyrsenic to be around 1000 BC. Chr.
The connection to the Rhaetian is to be regarded as less secure because the existing inscriptions do not show any coherent texts.
An Aegean language family has also been proposed, which includes the Eeteocretic and Eeteocyprian languages. If these languages were indeed related to the Etruscan and Rhaetian languages, they represented a pre-Indo-European language layer that stretched from the Aegean and Crete through Greece and the Apennine Peninsula to the Alps . However, this is not a scientific consensus; the Eeteocretic and the Eeteocyprian languages were u. a. also associated with the Semitic languages .
literature
- Helmut Rix: Rhaetian and Etruscan . Innsbruck 1998.
- Stefan Schumacher: Linguistic similarities between Rhaetian and Etruscan . Der Schlern 72 (1998), 90-114.
- Stefan Schumacher: The Rhaetian inscriptions. History and current status of research. 2nd, extended edition [= Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies 121 = Archaeolingua 2], Innsbruck: Institute for Languages and Literatures of the University of Innsbruck 2004.
Web links
- Raeti Incogniti: On the Rhaetian Language (proseminar work by Jano Felice Pajarola at the School for Applied Linguistics, Zurich 1997)