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Rhaetian or Rhaetic (Raetic) is an ancient language spoken in the ancient region of Rhaetia in the Eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times. It is documented by a limited number of short inscriptions (found through Northern Italy and Western Austria) in two variants of the Etruscan alphabet. Its linguistic categorization is not clearly established, and it presents a confusing mixture of what appear to be Etruscan, Indo-European, and uncertain other elements. The ancient Rhaetic language is not the same as one of the modern Romance languages of the same Alpine region, known as Rhaeto-Romance—although both are sometimes referred to as "Rhaetian". ==Classification== The most credible theories are that Rhaetic was: * a member — along with Etruscan — of a proposed Tyrrhenian language family by German linguist Helmut Rix, possibly influenced by neighboring Indo-European languages. Several recent works support this theory. * an Indo-European language, with links to Illyrian and Celtic * a language isolate, later influenced by Etruscan Recent studies indicate that the Rhaetian, in the limits of the database considered, has an alphabetic structure close to the Venetic, suggesting a linguisic origin closer to the Venetic than to the Latin. The abundance of Celtic toponyms and the complete absence of Etruscan place names in the Rhaetian territory, leads to the conclusion that, by the time of Roman conquest, the Rhaetians were completely Celticized. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhaetian language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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