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Language name Etruscan ��tr�skən
Language name Estonian e�stəυniən
THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 260
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different) Eeste
Language family isolate
Language family Uralic Finno-Ugric
Spoken in Italy
Spoken in Estonia
Approximate number of speakers spoken from c. 700 bce to 50 ce
Approximate number of speakers 1m
Writing system own alphabet derived from Greek
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress word-initial
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 4�4 diphthongs
Said to have how many vowels? 9�length
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types front rounded
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none in standard dialect
Morphology agglutinative word-based
(fusional)
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
and fusional
Particular formation types prefix; suffix; apophony
Particular formation types dvandva; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV NA (in late postpositions
Etruscan)
PossN (changes
to NPoss)
Syntax
Word order SVO AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena nominative / accusative marking; 4th person as an
impersonal; evidentials
Particular syntactic phenomena nominative / accusative marking; gender
Points of interest has long and extra-long vowels
Points of interest
Sources Bonfante & Bonfante (2002), Rix (2004)
Sources Collinder (1957), Harms (1962), Haspelmath et al. (2005),
Wälchli (2005)