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Puzzled about language...
The consensus (reflected in the relevant articles) seems to be that culturally, Urnfield -> Proto-Villanovan -> Villanovan -> Etruscan. But there is also a consensus that Urnfield is Indo-European (maybe Proto-Celtic, or perhaps preceding the split between Celtic and Italic), while Etruscan is non-Indo-European, and apparently that any Indo-European borrowings were relatively late. This leads to a puzzle: what were the Proto-Villanovan and Villanovan languages? Does anyone know of any genetics from the period that would illuminate this? Also, if cultural innovations came to Etruria indirectly from Urnfield, we might expect at least some of the Etruscan words for the relevant innovations (such as wheels, iron technologies) would be old adoptions from Indo-European - is there any hint of this? Urilarim (talk) 22:30, 3 October 2022 (UTC)