Rhaetic
| Rhaetic | |
|---|---|
| Raetic | |
| Native to | Ancient Rhaetia |
| Region | Eastern Alps, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia |
| Ethnicity | Rhaetian people |
| Era | 5th–1st centuries BC |
Tyrsenian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xrr |
xrr | |
| Glottolog | raet1238 |
Rhaetic or Raetic (/ˈraɪtɪk/), 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.
The ancient Rhaetic language is not to be confused with the modern Romance languages of the same Alpine region, known as Rhaeto-Romance.