1/ Rhaetic, like Etruscan, are two non-Indo-European languages, which were spoken in two neighboring regions, surrounded by Indo-European Celtic and Italic languages. Together with Lemnian, they belong to the same linguistic family called Tyrrhenic. #Rhaetians

@lowerscythe As I have noted several times, Homer's Troy hadn't been actually existed, but was a literary work of stitching together various myths from oral tradition. However, we could not rule out the possibility that this tradition is based on some core of real events.

@raphaelangellll The Basque language and the older Aquitanian probably have their origins in some ancestral language spoken by Neolithic populations of SW Europe. Some similarities have been found between Basque and ancient Iberian (eg numbers).

@DoubleHelix114 The Proto-Tyrsenic language dates back to at least the very early Neolithic period, and the separation of Rhaetic is believed to have occurred probably sometime until the Eneolithic period (-3000 BC).

@PeteFarrell14 The Etruscans are among the most interesting peoples of the ancient world because they are surrounded by two great unanswered mysteries: their non-Indo-European language among various Italic Indo-European languages, and their unknown origins.

@Polisseo The vast majority of modern Europeans share a common genetic component: the genome of the pioneering Neolithic farmers of Anatolia and the Aegean, who Neolithicized the entire European continent.

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@Seikilos5 The modern Rhaeto-Romance has no relation to the non-Indo-European ancient Rhaetic language. Rhaeto-Romance has Celtic and Italic origins and is a pure Indo-European language.

@GarryLavin The modern Rhaeto-Romance has no relation to the non-Indo-European ancient Rhaetic language. Rhaeto-Romance has Celtic and Italic origins and is a pure Indo-European language.

@chapps The modern Rhaeto-Romance has no relation to the non-Indo-European ancient Rhaetic language. Rhaeto-Romance has Celtic and Italic origins and is a pure Indo-European language.

@rahleited The cradle of the Tyrrhenian language must have been the Neolithic NE Aegean. And the process of Neolithicization of Italy was a crucial chronological horizon.

@drGraecoroman About Lemnian language:

@Ridge_Cook The Etruscans, like the Rhaetians, were probably descended from Neolithic populations of the Aegean, who were responsible for the Neolithicization of Europe. Something similar happened with the Basques. See the following thread:

@TheLove_Warrior In the early 6th century BC, the Phocaean colony of Alalia was converted into an Etruscan settlement and a strong military force of Tarquinians was sent. The Etruscans had also expanded into Campania and had founded the city of Campeva.

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RT @nrken19: Good thread on the Rhaetians in light of the new discovery of the necropolis in Trento.

@ahahistory2 In my opinion, the cradle of the Proto-Tyrsenic language was the NE Aegean (Lemnos - Troad). So the movement that took place was from east to west and dated in the Neolithic era.

@ahahistory2 I have mentioned several times that Italic populations migrated to the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age Collapse. Specifically, the Terramare populations after the collapse of their civilization seem to have moved towards central Italy, creating a domino effect of movements.

👉 At the same time, genetic studies has shown that both the Rhaetians and the Etruscans shared a common Neolithic origin and do not appear to have been immigrants from Anatolia. The separation of Rhaetians and Etruscans is believed to have occurred during the Eneolithic.