Editing Etruscan civilization (section)

===Language===
{{Main|Etruscan language|Tyrsenian languages}}
[[File:Perugia, Museo archeologico Nazionale dell'Umbria, cippo di Perugia.jpg|thumb|right|170px|[[Cippus Perusinus]]. 3rd–2nd century BC, San Marco near [[Perugia]]]]
Etruscans left around 13,000 [[epigraphy|inscriptions]] which have been found so far, only a small minority of which are of significant length. Attested from 700 BC to AD 50, the relation of Etruscan to other languages has been a source of long-running speculation and study. The Etruscans are believed to have spoken a [[Pre-Indo-European languages|Pre-Indo-European]]<ref>[[Massimo Pallottino]], ''La langue étrusque Problèmes et perspectives'', 1978.</ref><ref>Mauro Cristofani, ''Introduction to the study of the Etruscan'', Leo S. Olschki, 1991.</ref><ref>Romolo A. Staccioli, ''The "mystery" of the Etruscan language'', Newton & Compton publishers, Rome, 1977.</ref> and [[Paleo-European languages|Paleo-European language]],<ref name=Haarmann2014>{{cite book |last1=Haarmann |first1=Harald |author-link1=Harald Haarmann |year=2014 |chapter=Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean |editor1-last= McInerney|editor1-first= Jeremy |title=A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean |language=en |location=Chichester, UK |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc |publication-date=2014 |pages=17–33 |doi=10.1002/9781118834312.ch2 |isbn= 9781444337341}}</ref> and the majority consensus is that Etruscan is related only to other members of what is called the [[Tyrsenian languages|Tyrsenian language family]], which in itself is an [[language isolate|isolate family]], that is unrelated directly to other known language groups. Since [[Helmut Rix|Rix]] (1998), it is widely accepted that the Tyrsenian family groups [[Raetic language|Raetic]] and [[Lemnian language|Lemnian]] are related to Etruscan.<ref name="Rix-2008" />