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if Etruscan is not an Indo-European language...where did the Etruscans come from? They couldn't have been indigenous if they're surrounded by Italic peoples.
Oooh--according to Wikipedia,
Outside of Italy inscriptions have been found in Africa, Corsica, Elba, Gallia Narbonensis, Greece, the Balkans and the Black Sea.
God, it's so frustrating trying to figure this out when the only other languages in the Tyrrhenian family are ALSO dead! *Grumble, grumble* Sassa-frassin' Etruscans, if you were going to be so darn influential, you should have tried to keep your language alive a little longer! Did you know there's only one Etruscan piece of literature still extant?
Italy is geographically (and now, as a result, politically--there is a lot of cultural conflict between the North and the South) fragmented land. The Appennine range runs down the spine of the peninsula and throughout most of Italy--only seven percent of the land mass is plain. There are three major lowland regions--
*the Po Valley (the "top" of Italy) which opens up to the relatively restricted Adriatic;
*Apulia in the southeast (the "heel") which also opens up the the Adriatic;
and most significantly,
*the region comprising modern-day Tuscany (Etruria), Lazio (Latium) and Campania. This region opens up to the Mediterranean, a much broader social, technological and economic vista. This region offered a huge advantage to its peoples--one explanation for Rome's later success.
if Etruscan is not an Indo-European language...where did the Etruscans come from? They couldn't have been indigenous if they're surrounded by Italic peoples.
Oooh--according to Wikipedia,
Outside of Italy inscriptions have been found in Africa, Corsica, Elba, Gallia Narbonensis, Greece, the Balkans and the Black Sea.
God, it's so frustrating trying to figure this out when the only other languages in the Tyrrhenian family are ALSO dead! *Grumble, grumble* Sassa-frassin' Etruscans, if you were going to be so darn influential, you should have tried to keep your language alive a little longer! Did you know there's only one Etruscan piece of literature still extant?
Italy is geographically (and now, as a result, politically--there is a lot of cultural conflict between the North and the South) fragmented land. The Appennine range runs down the spine of the peninsula and throughout most of Italy--only seven percent of the land mass is plain. There are three major lowland regions--
*the Po Valley (the "top" of Italy) which opens up to the relatively restricted Adriatic;
*Apulia in the southeast (the "heel") which also opens up the the Adriatic;
and most significantly,
*the region comprising modern-day Tuscany (Etruria), Lazio (Latium) and Campania. This region opens up to the Mediterranean, a much broader social, technological and economic vista. This region offered a huge advantage to its peoples--one explanation for Rome's later success.
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Date: 2010-01-23 01:48 am (UTC)