At 21:13 +0000 2003-01-20, etaonsh <rcom@...> wrote:

>2) AIUI, the Germanic 'runes' are
>also thought to be derived from the
>Etruscan alphabet.

From the Alpine scripts which were derived from Old Italic.

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