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The 2007 article in this pdf that I came across yesterday is entitled Rhaetic: An extinct Semitic language in Central Europe by Professors Dr. Alfréd Tóth and Dr. Linus Brunner.
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The 2007 article in this pdf that I came across yesterday is entitled Rhaetic: An extinct Semitic language in Central Europe by Professors Dr. Alfréd Tóth and Dr. Linus Brunner.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Tropylium: "My counterargument on that would've been, how do we tell e.g. that all the 'Rhaetic' inscriptions represent a single language after all?"
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My counterargument on that would've been, how do we tell e.g. that all the "Rhaetic" inscriptions represent a single language after all?
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From a linguistic perspective, something that I don't feel Bonfante is going by, it makes the most sense that the Po Valley would serve as a linguistic epicenter from which the Rhaetic idiom would spread north while the Etruscan dialect would swoop to the south and west.
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Larissa Bonfante rejected this immigration from the north1, attributing the presence of Rhaetic instead to later Etruscan colonization into the Po Valley in the 6th century based on Livy.
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The above picture should give a clear picture of how I would wager the Etrusco-Rhaetic languages entered Italy by the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE.
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Anatolian languages loaned the Greek reflexes while Aegean gave birth to Etrusco-Rhaetic *mel 'honey'/*mlítʰu 'sweet' which yielded the Latin, Celtic and finally Germanic reflexes via Celtic once this branch first arrived in Italy.
Missing honey 2010
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I can't help but conclude one thing: the Etruscan and Rhaetic languages eminated from the eastern coast of the Po Valley and spread out from there.
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This is because of what I've encountered as valid sound sequences and syllable shapes in more certain Minoan etyma and because of comparison with Etruscan, Rhaetic and Lemnian.
Death and daffodils 2010
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