From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54410
Date: 2008-03-01
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "fournet.arnaud" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 2:15 PM
Subject: Re[3]: [tied] Basque, Etruscan and Common Sound Changes (was:
Finnish KASKA)
> 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>.
>
> Brian
>
>
>