Re: Re[3]: [tied] Basque, Etruscan and Common Sound Changes (was: F

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 15:15:47 -0500, "Brian M. Scott"
<BMScott@...> wrote:

>At 12:56:43 PM on Saturday, March 1, 2008, fournet.arnaud
>wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> Now, I tend to think that the Etruscan alphabet *cannot*
>> be inherited *thru* Greek
>
>> A major reason is Etruscan has a extra letter between n
>> and p as in Hebrew (ts?) that Greek does not have
>
>The Etruscan alphabet is derived from a Western Greek
>alphabet, that of the Euboeans. It had a letter shaped
>like a cross, <+>, representing /ks/, between <n> and <o>,
>and it used a letter shaped like a trident, clearly
>corresponding graphically to standard Greek psi, for /kH/.
>The Marsiliana d'Albegna Etruscan alphabet (mid 7th c. BCE)
>encloses the <+> in a square and uses the resulting letter
>for a sibilant, and it uses the trident shape for <ch>.

See also my article "Europe Alphabets, Ancient Clasical"
[not the lemma I would have chosen] in the Encyclopaedia of
Languages and Linguistics, 2nd. ed. (Elseviers, 2006).

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