Rix 1998

Helmut Rix, Rätisch und Etruskisch [= Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Vorträge und kleinere Schriften 68], Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft 1998.

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Author/Editor:	Helmut Rix
Type:	proceedings, linguistic study
Language:	German
Used for:	VR·19

Commentary

Based on the working hypothesis that Etruscan and Raetic are related languages, Rix is able to add some explanations to the Raetic grammar, and to propose a "Urtyrsenisch" (Proto-Tyrsenian) as common ancestor of Etruscan, Raetic, and Lemnian. Concerning Celtic in Northern Italy he mentions:

• The inscription on the Negau helmet A, written in the Sanzeno alphabet, is seen as Celtic according to Prosdocimi & Scardigli 1976: 224 f. [p. 6].
• The inscription PID 248 may be witten in the Lepontic alphabet judging by the letter forms [p. 10].
• The Lepontic inscriptions PID 280 and PID 269 contain adjectival patronyms [p. 13].