Raetic

Also known as Raetic language

Rhaetic or Raetic (), also known as Rhaetian, was a Tyrsenian language spoken in the ancient region of Rhaetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times. It is documented by around 280 texts dated from the 5th through the 1st century BC, which were found through northern Italy, southern Germany, eastern Switzerland, Slovenia and western Austria, in two variants of the Old Italic scripts. Rhaetic is largely accepted as being closely related to Etruscan.

Key facts

Language.name: Rhaetic
Language.altname: Raetic
Language.image: IT-5 photo.jpg
Language.imagecaption: Bronze plate from Demlfeld, near Ampass (Innsbruck, Austria) written in Sanzeno script. From the turn of the fifth century BC
Language.states: Ancient Rhaetia
Language.region: Eastern Alps, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia
Language.familycolor: Tyrsenian
Language.fam1: Tyrsenian
Language.iso3: xrr
Language.linglist: xrr
Language.glotto: raet1238
Language.glottorefname: Raetic
Language.era: 5th–1st centuries BC
Language.map: Tyrsenian languages.svg
Language.ethnicity: Rhaetian people