Bahasa Raetia
Raetik | |||||
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Dituturkan di | Raetia | ||||
Wilayah | Pegunungan Alpen bagian timur | ||||
Etnis | Suku Raetia | ||||
Era | hingga abad ke-1 SM[1] | ||||
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Alfabet Italik Kuno | |||||
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ISO 639-3 | xrr | ||||
LINGUIST List ![]() | xrr | ||||
Glottolog | raet1238 [2] | ||||
IETF | xrr | ||||
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Lokasi penuturan Bahasa Raetia | |||||
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Bahasa Raetia adalah bahasa yang pernah dituturkan di Raetia, Pegunungan Alpen bagian timur pada masa Pra-Romawi dan Romawi Kuno.[5] Bahasa ini memiliki bukti tertulis pada lebih dari 200 prasasti yang ditulis dari abad ke-5 hingga abad ke-1 SM, yang ditemukan di Italia bagian utara, Slovenia, dan Austria bagian barat,[6][7] yang menggunakan Alfabet Italik Kuno.[8] Sebagian pakar menerima Raetia berkerabat dengan bahasa Etruria.[9]
Etruscan origins lie in the distant past. Despite the claim by Herodotus, who wrote that Etruscans migrated to Italy from Lydia in the eastern Mediterranean, there is no material or linguistic evidence to support this. Etruscan material culture developed in an unbroken chain from Bronze Age antecedents. As for linguistic relationships, Lydian is an Indo-European language. Lemnian, which is attested by a few inscriptions discovered near Kamania on the island of Lemnos, was a dialect of Etruscan introduced to the island by commercial adventurers. Linguistic similarities connecting Etruscan with Raetic, a language spoken in the sub-Alpine regions of northeastern Italy, further militate against the idea of eastern origins.