This is a self-published web reference maintained by Simon Ager on Omniglot, the same long running writing systems catalogue this atlas also cites for the Theban alphabet, documenting the Latin alphabet's Etruscan and Greek origins and its letter inventory as a practical, checkable description of the script's known history rather than as a specialist historical linguistic monograph. Its value here is as a working summary a reader can check the letter inventory against, not as original epigraphic research. Use it for the alphabet's documented general letter inventory and origin story; a claim requiring specialist current epigraphic or historical linguistic scholarship on a specific letter's development needs a dedicated academic source such as Sacks's Letter Perfect or a philological monograph instead.
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An established single-author reference site with a twenty-five year public track record and a published corrections history, aligned with the same site's other pages in this register. NotesWriting-systems reference on the Latin/Roman alphabet, its Etruscan and Greek origins and its letter inventory.
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AuthorSimon Ager
PublisherOmniglot
URLhttps://www.omniglot.com/writing/latin.htm
Source Typereference
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This source names Etruscans directly: "This is a self-published web reference maintained by Simon Ager on Omniglot, the same long running writing systems catalogue this atlas also cites for the Theban alphabet, documenting the Latin..."
Claims Backed By This Source (34 claims)
This source backs 34 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 26 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Alphabet Letters, 26 claims: 26 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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