Affects of immigrant communities in language change

>The Latin alphabet was inspired largely by an Etruscan predecessor, yes?

Yes.

>Etruscan loan words are found in Latin, resulting from Etruscan
>political, economic, and military expansion into Lativm, yes?

Erh, actually, last time I left the problem, I failed to find
secure Etruscan-to-Latin political/military loanwords that you
speak of. It seems as though it goes the opposite direction
from Latin to Etruscan... as if Etruscan were relative latecomers.
Can you be more specific on which Etruscan or Latin
words you are refering to?

>Significant Etruscan cultural impacts on Latin culture due to the
>reasons stated above, yes?

Erh, I veered off your track at this point...

>All of this evident in Latin textual data and material culture that
>dates after the collapse of the Etruscan political system and the
>Gallic intrusion, yes?

Erh... hmmm...

>Now apply the same questions to Rhaetian and the Po Basin, then add
>the fact that Rhaetic texts are typically short and relatively few in
>number, yes or no?

The inscriptions are few in number because the Rhaetic weren't in
power nor were they using their own writing system!


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