Etruscan

ancient Mediterranean language
Language language Q35726
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Summary

Etruscan is a language[1]. Etruscan ranks in the top 0.34% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,876 views/month, #19 of 5,611).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Ancient Rome[3]
  • Instance of: dead language[4], ancient language[5]
  • Subclass of: Tyrsenian[6]
  • Writing system: Etruscan alphabet[7]
  • Commons category: Etruscan language[8]
  • Wikimedia language code: ett[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Etruscan language[10]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 0[11]
  • Described by source: Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://latin.stackexchange.com/tags/etruscan[13]
  • Native label: 𐌓𐌀𐌔𐌍𐌀[14]
  • Indigenous to: Etruria[15]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ETT[16]
  • Has grammatical case: nominative case[17], accusative case[18], genitive case[19], dative case[20], locative case[21]
  • Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[22]

Why It Matters

Etruscan has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Etruscan is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Wikidata Toolkit. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 2509
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 2509, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107284751|Etruscan language (#107284751)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxfor"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Subclass of → Tyrsenian
    Linguistic typology → agglutinative language
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 18322, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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