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The Etruscan Language
Isaac Taylor
Hardwicke, 1876
Etruscan language
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The Etruscan Language
Isaac Taylor
Hardwicke, 1876
Etruscan language
50 pages, Paperback
Published March 15, 2014
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Isaac Taylor
544 books6 followersIsaac Taylor was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor.
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January 21, 2016
I'm not really up to date with all the recent developments about the subject so I guess that a few of Taylor's ideas have been soundly refuted. The topic is nevertheless still something that is debatable since there is no equivalent to an Etruscan Rosetta Stone Thus the philologists have to use other languages to try and track down the origins and meaning of the Etruscan speach.
What I found really interesting in Taylor's short piece is how he puts forward such a solid argument concerning Etruscan numerals. His comparison to, what we today call, Finn-Ugric languages seems well-researched and a lot more based on existing evidence than mere conjecture. Notable are also some other scholarly theories that he briefly mentions and distinctly puts away in a dark corner. Taylor strays off-topic towards the end and there is some speculation about peoples origins and peoples movements that we know better of today.
Taylor's writing is clear and concise and you could compare this work to a philologist's detective novel.
What I found really interesting in Taylor's short piece is how he puts forward such a solid argument concerning Etruscan numerals. His comparison to, what we today call, Finn-Ugric languages seems well-researched and a lot more based on existing evidence than mere conjecture. Notable are also some other scholarly theories that he briefly mentions and distinctly puts away in a dark corner. Taylor strays off-topic towards the end and there is some speculation about peoples origins and peoples movements that we know better of today.
Taylor's writing is clear and concise and you could compare this work to a philologist's detective novel.
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