Etruscan Alphabet

The Etruscan alphabet was used by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization of central and northern Italy, to write their language, from about 700 BC to sometime around 100 AD. It derives from the Euboean alphabet used in the Greek colonies in southern Italy, which belonged to the western, or red, type known as the Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it or arose simultaneously with it. In this atlas it stands beside the Greek and Roman scripts in the Greek script family, so the alphabet that carried Greek letter forms to Rome can be read next to both.