Global Information Lookup Global Information

Old Italic scripts information


Old Italic
An inscription from the Marsiliana tablet, around 700 BC
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
7th century – 1st century BC
DirectionRight-to-left script, left-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Proto-Sinaitic
    • Phoenician
      • Greek
        • Old Italic
Child systems
Runic, Latin alphabet
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Ital (210), ​Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Old Italic
Unicode range
U+10300–U+1032F[1]
 This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used on 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 alphabets used in Northern Europe are believed to have been separately derived from one of these alphabets by the 2nd century AD.[2]

  1. ^ Old Italic (PDF) (chart), Unicode.
  2. ^ "runic alphabet | writing system". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 September 2022.

and 24 Related for: Old Italic scripts information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8667 seconds.)

Old Italic scripts

Last Update:

The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used on the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken...

Word Count : 1507

Italic languages

Last Update:

of Italic languages currently spoken see Romance languages. Most Italic languages (including Romance) are generally written in Old Italic scripts (or...

Word Count : 4212

Etruscan alphabet

Last Update:

"western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously...

Word Count : 981

Elder Futhark

Last Update:

Futhark runes are commonly believed to originate in the Old Italic scripts: either a North Italic variant (Etruscan or Raetic alphabets), or the Latin alphabet...

Word Count : 3742

G

Last Update:

direct descendant of zeta. Zeta took shapes like ⊏ in some of the Old Italic scripts; the development of the monumental form 'G' from this shape would...

Word Count : 2726

History of writing

Last Update:

a number of Italic scripts derived from the western Greeks. Due to the cultural dominance of the Roman state, the other Old Italic scripts have not survived...

Word Count : 12006

Italic

Last Update:

Italy Italic languages, an Indo-European language family Old Italic alphabet, an alphabet of ancient Italy Italic script, a method of handwriting Italic type...

Word Count : 109

Rhaetic

Last Update:

Switzerland, Slovenia and western Austria, in two variants of the Old Italic scripts. Rhaetic is largely accepted as being closely related to Etruscan...

Word Count : 2070

Oscan language

Last Update:

was originally written in a specific "Oscan alphabet", one of the Old Italic scripts derived from (or cognate with) the Etruscan alphabet. Later inscriptions...

Word Count : 3966

Blackletter

Last Update:

with the Old English language, which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc. Along with Italic type and...

Word Count : 4149

Italic type

Last Update:

In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as...

Word Count : 4791

E

Last Update:

the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Although Middle English...

Word Count : 1631

Lithuanian orthography

Last Update:

Lithuanian orthography employs a Latin-script alphabet of 32 letters, two of which denote sounds not native to the Lithuanian language. Additionally, it...

Word Count : 933

Latin alphabet

Last Update:

other. This script evolved into a variety of regional medieval scripts (for example, the Merovingian, Visigothic and Benevantan scripts), to be later...

Word Count : 1776

Latin script

Last Update:

lit. 'All of the Sisters of the old City had seen the Birds'. Words from languages natively written with other scripts, such as Arabic or Chinese, are...

Word Count : 3959

Gaulish

Last Update:

tablets. Gaulish was first written in Greek script in southern France and in a variety of Old Italic script in northern Italy. After the Roman conquest...

Word Count : 9129

Latvian orthography

Last Update:

The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet...

Word Count : 1447

Umbrian language

Last Update:

Iguvine tablets were written in two alphabets. The older, the Umbrian alphabet, like other Old Italic script, was derived from the Etruscan alphabet, and was...

Word Count : 2103

History of the Latin script

Last Update:

centuries secretary hand was slowly replaced by italic scripts, a semi-cursive group of scripts. Early italic hand, dating from the 15th century, was based...

Word Count : 3250

Spread of the Latin script

Last Update:

the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time. The early Latin script was heavily influenced by the then regionally...

Word Count : 8820

Old Sundanese script

Last Update:

script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Sundanese characters. Old Sundanese script (Sundanese:...

Word Count : 1237

Cyrillic script

Last Update:

i.e. lowercase italic Cyrillic ⟨т⟩, may look like small-capital italic ⟨T⟩. In Standard Serbian, as well as in Macedonian, some italic and cursive letters...

Word Count : 5302

A

Last Update:

These variants, the Italic and Roman forms, were derived from the Caroline Script version. The Italic form ⟨ɑ⟩, also called script a, is often used in...

Word Count : 2780

Slovene alphabet

Last Update:

abɛˈtséːda] or slovenska gajica [- ˈɡáːjitsa]) is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene. The standard language uses a Latin alphabet which...

Word Count : 1507

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net