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I guess you might know already, but just to be on the same page: - Etruscan is not considered an Indo European language - Etruscan is part of a larger family

I guess you might know already, but just to be on the same page: - Etruscan is not considered an Indo European language - Etruscan is part of a larger family of languages: the Tyrsenian. Other members are the Raetic language, which was spoken in North Italy, Switzerland and parts of Austria. And also Lemnian, which was spoken in some parts of the Aegean sea.

ithkuil 3y ago
Oh yes; I thought it was obvious but then I re-read what I wrote and it was not obvious. My point was to show how it's rather normal to have languages mixed up geographically in such a way that can explain why the same language family ends up in central italy and in an island in greece, by observing that it happens also with languages for which we have much more available data.