Este alphabet

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The Este alphabet is an ancient North Italic writing system used by the Venetic people in the region around the town of Este in northeastern Italy.

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Este alphabet canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf North Italic script
ancient alphabet
writing system
associatedWithCulture Veneti people
surface form: Venetic culture
derivedFrom Etruscan alphabet
geographicContext Northern Italy
surface form: North Italy

Po Valley
hasScriptType alphabetic
hasTransliteration Latin script
relatedTo Camunic alphabet
Lepontic alphabet
Lepontic alphabet
surface form: Raetic alphabet
scriptFamily Old Italic script
surface form: Old Italic scripts
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
Iron Age
unicodeStatus not encoded in Unicode
usedBy Veneti people
surface form: Venetic people
usedFor funerary inscriptions
inscriptions
short texts on objects
votive inscriptions
usedInRegion Este
Veneto
northeastern Italy
writingDirection right-to-left
writingMedium metal
pottery
stone
writingSystemOf Venetic language
writingSystemType consonant-vowel alphabet

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North Italic alphabet hasVariant Este alphabet