North Italic alphabet

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ancient alphabet writing system family

The North Italic alphabet is an ancient family of scripts used in northern Italy, derived from the Etruscan alphabet and employed to write several local languages including Raetic.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
North Italic alphabets	1
North Italic script	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient alphabet ⓘ writing system family ⓘ
category	Ancient writing systems ⓘ
derivedFrom	Etruscan alphabet ⓘ
developedFrom	Etruscan alphabet ⓘ surface form: Etruscan script
developedInPeriod	1st millennium BCE ⓘ
geographicRegion	Alpine region ⓘ Po Valley ⓘ
hasLinguisticFunction	phonemic representation of local languages ⓘ
hasNumberOfLetters	varies by local variant ⓘ
hasTransliterationTo	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
hasUnicodeStatus	not fully encoded as a separate block ⓘ
hasVariant	Lepontic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Bolzano–Bozen Raetic script Lepontic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Camunic alphabet Este alphabet ⓘ Lepontic alphabet ⓘ Lepontic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Raetic alphabet Venetic alphabet ⓘ
influenced	Runic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Runic alphabet (hypothesized)
influencedBy	Greek alphabet (indirectly) ⓘ
relatedTo	Etruscan alphabet ⓘ South Picene alphabet ⓘ
replacedBy	Latin alphabet ⓘ
scriptFamily	Italic scripts ⓘ
scriptLineage	Phoenician alphabet → Greek alphabet → Etruscan alphabet → North Italic alphabets ⓘ
scriptType	alphabetic ⓘ
subclassOf	Old Italic script ⓘ surface form: Old Italic scripts
timeOfUse	approximately 7th century BCE to 1st century BCE ⓘ
typicalMedium	metal objects ⓘ stone ⓘ
usedBy	Lepontii ⓘ Raetic people ⓘ Veneti ⓘ surface form: Veneti (ancient people)
usedFor	Celtic languages in Cisalpine Gaul ⓘ Lepontic language ⓘ Raetic language ⓘ Venetic language ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ
usedIn	Northern Italy ⓘ surface form: northern Italy
writingDirection	boustrophedon ⓘ right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystemScope	regional ⓘ
writingSystemStatus	extinct ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Alpine Celtic culture → writingSystem → North Italic alphabet ⓘ

this entity surface form: North Italic alphabets

Raetic language → writingSystem → North Italic alphabet ⓘ

Veneti people → writingSystem → North Italic alphabet ⓘ

this entity surface form: North Italic script