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Latin and Etruscan are completely unrelated languages, although Etruscan did influence Latin slightly.

Unlike Latin, Etruscan is agglutinating, with nouns and verbs showing suffixed inflectional endings and ablaut in some cases.


Nouns show four cases; singular and plural numbers, and masculine and feminine genders. Phonologically, Etruscan appears uncomplicated, with a four-vowel system and an apparent contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops. The language shows phonetic change over time, with the loss and then re-establishment of word-internal vowels due to the effect of Etruscan's strong word-initial stress.

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