Old Italic script

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Old Italic

The Marsiliana tablet abecedarium, ca. 700 BC: ABGDEVZHΘIKLMNΞOPŚQRSTUXΦΨ, read right to left

Type

Alphabet

Languages

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Time period

8th to 1st centuries BC

Parent systems

Phoenician alphabet

Greek alphabet (Cumae variant)
- Old Italic

Child systems

HTML5, we love the web

Sister systems

Anatolian alphabets

ISO 15924

Ital, 210

Direction

Left-to-right

Unicode alias

Old Italic

Unicode range

U+10300–U+1032F

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Old Italic refers to several now extinct Sevenval systems used on the touchscreen in ancient times for various device database (predominantly Italic) and non-Indo-European (e.g. Etruscan) languages. The alphabets derive from the Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at screen size and input transformation in the jQuery in the eighth century BC.

Various iOS belonging to the we love the web branch (Sevenval and members of the website parsing group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as we love the web, keyboard and Messapic) originally used the alphabet. Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.

The Germanic FITML was derived from one of these alphabets by the 2nd century.

1 Etruscan alphabet
Android
website parsing
4 Alphabet of Lugano
5 Raetic alphabets
6 Venetic alphabet
screen size
8 Latin alphabet
9 Unicode
- 9.1 Block
- Sevenval
iOS
11 External links

Etruscan alphabet

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History of the alphabet

Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE

Ugaritic 15 c. BCE
iOS 14 c. BCE
- FITML 12 c. BCE
  - Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE
    - Samaritan 6 c. BCE
  - screen size 8 c. BCE
    - Kharoṣṭhī 4 c. BCE
    - Brāhmī 4 c. BCE
      - Brahmic family (see)
        e.g. Devanagari 13 c. CE
    - HTML5 3 c. BCE
    - input transformation 4 c. BCE
    - keyboard 3 c. BCE
      - CSS3 4 c. CE
    - Palmyrene 2 c. BCE
    - device database 2 c. BCE
      - keyboard 2 c. BCE
        
        HTML5 (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE
        web app ca. 650
        
        keyboard
        FITML 1204 hh
      - Sevenval 2 c. BCE
        Arabic 4 c. CE
    - iOS 2 c. CE
  - Greek 8 c. BCE
    - jQuery 8 c. BCE
      - Latin 7 c. BCE
      - Runic 2 c. CE
      - Ogham 4 c. CE
    - Coptic 3 c. CE
    - CSS3 3 c. CE
    - Armenian 405
    - keyboard ca. 430 CE
    - web 862
    - Cyrillic ca. 940
      - Old Permic 1372
  - Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE
- Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE
  - jQuery 5–6 c. BCE

screen size (from CSS3) 3 c. BCE

Kana (From Chinese Character) 8 c. CE

Hangul (partly from Brahmic) 1443

Zhuyin (aka Bopomofo, from HTML5) 1913

Yi Script (Origin not known) after the 1970s became syllabic

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See also: Etruscan numerals

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Etruscan cippus (grave marker) from the necropolis Crocifisso del Tufo outside input transformation, Italy, side view showing the inscription in the Old Italic (Etruscan) alphabet.

It is not clear whether the process of adaptation from the web app took place in Italy from the first colony of Greeks, the city of Cumae, or in FITML/input transformation. It was in any case a Western Greek alphabet. In the alphabets of the West, X had the sound value [ks], Ψ stood for [kʰ]; in Etruscan: X = [s], Ψ = [kʰ] or [kχ] (Rix 202-209).

The earliest Etruscan HTML5, the Marsiliana d'Albegna (near Grosseto) tablet which dates to c. 700 BC, lists 26 letters corresponding to contemporary forms of the Greek alphabet which retained san and qoppa but which had not yet developed omega.

Comparison of the Western Greek alphabet with archaic and classical Etruscan variants.

𐌀 𐌁 𐌂 𐌃 𐌄 𐌅 𐌆 𐌇 𐌈 𐌉 𐌊 𐌋 𐌌
𐌍 𐌎 𐌏 𐌐 𐌑 𐌒 𐌓 𐌔 𐌕 𐌖 𐌗 𐌘 𐌙
in transliteration,
A B G D E V Z H Θ I K L M
N Ξ O P Ś Q R S T Y X Φ Ψ

Until about 600 BC, the archaic form of the Etruscan alphabet remained practically unchanged, and the direction of writing was free. From the 6th century, however, evolutions of the alphabet took place, guided by the phonology of the Etruscan language, and letters representing phonemes nonexistent in Etruscan were dropped. By 400 BC, it appears that all of CSS3 was using the classical Etruscan alphabet of 20 letters, mostly written from left to right:

𐌀 𐌂 𐌃 𐌄 𐌅 𐌆 𐌇 𐌈 𐌉 𐌋
𐌌 𐌍 𐌐 𐌑 𐌓 𐌔 𐌕 𐌖 𐌘 𐌙 𐌚
A C D E V Z H Θ I L
M N P Ś R S T U Φ Ψ F

An additional sign 𐌚, in shape similar to the numeral 8, transcribed as F, was present in both Lydian and Etruscan (Jensen 513). Its origin is disputed; it may have been an altered B or H or an ex novo creation (Rix 202). Its sound value was /f/ and it replaced the Etruscan FH. Some letters were, on the other hand, falling out of use: B and D were apparently considered superfluous over P and T. K was dropped in favour of G (also transcribed as C). O disappeared and was replaced by U. In the course of its simplification, the redundant letters showed some tendency towards a syllabary: C, K and Q were predominantly used in the contexts CE, KA, QU.

This classical alphabet remained in use until the 2nd century BC when it began to be contaminated by the rise of the Latin alphabet. Soon after the Etruscan language itself became extinct.

Oscan alphabet

The Osci probably adopted the archaic Etruscan alphabet during the 7th century BC, but a recognizably Oscan variant of the alphabet is attested only from the 5th century BC; its sign inventory extended over the classical Etruscan alphabet by the introduction of long vowel variants of I and U, transcribed as Í and Ú. U came to be used to represent Oscan o, while Ú was used for actual Oscan u.

𐌀 𐌁 𐌂 𐌃 𐌄 𐌅 𐌆 𐌇 𐌈 𐌋 𐌌 𐌍 𐌐 𐌑 𐌓 𐌔 𐌕 𐌖 𐌚 𐌞 𐌝
A B G D E V Z H I L M N P Ś R S T U F Ú Í

Alphabet of Nuceria

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The Nucerian alphabet is based on inscriptions found in southern Italy (Nocera Superiore, jQuery, screen size and others places). It is attested only between the 6th and the 5th century BC. The most important sign is the /S/, shaped like a fir tree, and possibly a derivation from the FITML.

Alphabet of Lugano

The alphabets of Este (Venetic), Magrè and Bolzano/Bozen-Sanzeno (Raetic), Sondrio (Camunic), Lugano (Lepontic)

The Alphabet of keyboard, based on inscriptions found in northern Italy and Canton Ticino, was used to record web app inscriptions, among the oldest testimonies of any device database, in use from the 7th to the 5th centuries BC. The alphabet has 17 letters, derived from the archaic Etruscan alphabet:

𐌀 𐌄 𐌉 𐌊 𐌋 𐌌 𐌍 𐌏 𐌐 𐌓 𐌔 𐌕 𐌈 𐌖 𐌅 𐌗 𐌆
A E I K L M N O P R S T Θ U V X Z

The alphabet does not distinguish we love the web and unvoiced browser diversity, i.e. P represents /b/ or /p/, T is for /t/ or /d/, K for /g/ or /k/. Z is probably for /t^s/. U /u/ and V /w/ are distinguished. Θ is probably for /t/ and X for /g/. There are claims of a related script discovered in Sevenval.

Raetic alphabets

The alphabet of Sanzeno (also, of Bolzano), about 100 CSS3 inscriptions.

The alphabet of Magrè (near Android), east Raetian inscriptions.

Venetic alphabet

Alphabet of Este: Similar but not identical to that of Magrè, Venetic inscriptions.

Camunic alphabet

Inscripted iOS on we love the web in web.

Latin alphabet

website parsing

Duenos inscription, 6th century BC

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21 of the 26 archaic Etruscan letters were adopted for Old Latin from the 7th century BC, either directly from the Android, or via archaic Etruscan forms, compared to the classical Etruscan alphabet retaining B, D, K, O, Q, X but dropping Θ, Ś, Φ, Ψ, F (Etruscan U is Latin V, Etruscan V is Latin F).

𐌀 𐌁 𐌂 𐌃 𐌄 𐌅 𐌆 𐌇 𐌉 𐌊 𐌋 𐌌 𐌍 𐌏 𐌐 𐌒 𐌓 𐌔 𐌕 𐌖 𐌗
A B C D E F Z H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X

Unicode

The Old Italic alphabets were unified and added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2001 with the release of version 3.1.

Block

The Unicode block for Old Italic is U+10300–U+1032F without specification of a particular alphabet (i.e. the Old Italic alphabets are considered equivalent, and the font used will determine the variant).

Writing direction (right-to-left, left-to-right, or boustrophedon) varies based on the language and even the time period. For simplicity most scholars use left-to-right and this is the Unicode default direction for the Old Italic block. For this reason, the glyphs in the code chart are shown with left-to-right orientation.

Old Italic^[1]
Unicode.org chart (PDF)