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III. Etruscan and Dravidian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Sten Konow
Sten Konow
Affiliation:
University of Christiania, Norway.
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The remarks which follow are based on notes which I have made in reading Professor Torp's Etruskische Beiträge, vols. i–ii (Leipzig, 1902–3). I have never myself studied the Etruscan language, and my knowledge of Dravidian is rather limited. I was, however, at once struck by the apparent analogy of several features in both families, and I have thought it worth while to arrange my notes and make a short abstract of them. I do not think that I have solved the vexed question about the origin of the old inhabitants of Etruria. But I hope to have shown that there are many interesting points in which their language follows the same principles as that of the Draviḍas, and that I have, in so doing, added something to the probability of the theory that the old Etrurians did not belong to the Indo-European stock.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 1904 , pp. 45 - 51
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1904

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