Old Italic alphabet

The Italic viel indicates several Alphabet S today unutilised and which was used in the Italian peninsula in Antiquity by various Indo-European people (especially Italique) or not (e.g the languages Etruscan S).

These alphabets derive from the Greek Eubée N, the Alphabet of Cumae, used with Ischia and Cumae in the Baie of Naples to the VIIIe front century J. - C.. The cumaéen watch itself of strong similarities with the Alphabet phenician, allowing to suppose a phenician influence in the area west-power station of the the Mediterranean.

Various Indo-European Langues belongs to the connects Italic (Faliscien and members of the group Sabellien, including the Isque, the Umbrien, the Picène of the south, as well as other Indo-European branches such as Vénète and the Messapien) which used at the beginning the alphabet . The faliscan, the Osque, the umbrien, the Picène of north, and the picene of the south derive all from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.

The Runic alphabet of the Germanic Langues probably derived from the one of these alphabets during the 2nd century.

The Etruscan alphabet

The alphabet Osque

The alphabet of Lugano

Alphabets raetic

The alphabet of Este

The Latin alphabet

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