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Old Italic scripts

The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place. The most notable member is the Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ancestor of the Latin alphabet used by more than 100 languages today, including English. The runic…

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Child systems
Runic, Latin alphabet
Direction
Right-to-left script, left-to-right, boustrophedon
Parent systems
Proto-SinaiticPhoenicianGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic · PhoenicianGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic · Greek (Euboean variant)Old Italic · Old Italic
Period
7th century – 1st century BC
Script type
Alphabet
Unicode alias
Old Italic

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Old Italic scripts

Nodes67
Edges66
Triples54
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029851
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Old Italic scripts

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related to Origins · 42
Old Italic scripts → Ancient Greek, As, BC, British School, Chalcidian, Chalcis, Cisalpine Celtic, Cumae, Cumaean, Etruscan, Etruscan Orientalising, Etruscans, Euboean, Euboean Greek, Faliscans, Greek, Greek-derived, Gulf, However, Ischia
Parent systems · 4
Old Italic scripts → Greek (Euboean variant)Old Italic, Old Italic, PhoenicianGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic, Proto-SinaiticPhoenicianGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic
Child systems · 1
Old Italic scripts → Runic, Latin alphabet
Direction · 1
Old Italic scripts → Right-to-left script, left-to-right, boustrophedon
ISO 15924 · 1
Old Italic scripts → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Ital (210), ​Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
Period · 1
Old Italic scripts → 7th century – 1st century BC
Script type · 1
Old Italic scripts → Alphabet
Unicode alias · 1
Old Italic scripts → Old Italic
Unicode range · 1
Old Italic scripts → U+10300–U+1032F

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etruscan alphabet italic old used unicode alphabets century languages greek bc latin south inscriptions ipa left-to-right venetic oscan letters picene

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Old Italic scriptsChild systemsRunic, Latin alphabet1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsDirectionRight-to-left script, left-to-right, boustrophedon1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Ital (210), ​Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsParent systemsProto-SinaiticPhoenicianGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsParent systemsPhoenicianGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsParent systemsGreek (Euboean variant)Old Italic1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsParent systemsOld Italic1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsPeriod7th century – 1st century BC1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsScript typeAlphabet1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsUnicode aliasOld Italic1.00infobox
Old Italic scriptsUnicode rangeU+10300–U+1032F1.00infobox
Veneticinstance ofand other Indo-European branches0.80text

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