Written in Italian, this essay is nonetheless easily comprehensible to scholars of Etruscan language and culture. Find out more ........................................................................ Massimo Pittau – (Nuoro, 6 February 1921 – Sassari, 20 November 2019) was an Italian linguist and glottologist, a scholar of the Etruscan language, the Sardinian language, and proto-Sardinian. He published numerous studies on Nuragic civilisation and historical Sardinia. His positions regarding the Nuorese dialect (the most conservative within…
The Dictionary of the Etruscan Language ( Dizionario della Lingua Etrusca , hereafter DETR) represents, without question, the first and, to date, the only comprehensive lexicon ever published on the Etruscan language . Its compilation required nearly thirty-five years of sustained scholarly labor on the part of its Author. The work contains approximately 8,500 lexical entries — that is, every term attested in inscriptions of various kinds up to the present, specifically through the year 2012. For each of these entries, the DETR presents th…