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Re:The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text by new2627 on Sunday May 19, 2019 @11:52AM (#19953886)
You are right, but just to nitpick, linguistic ancestors don't always overlap with genetic ancestors. It could well be that your linguistic ones stumbled there late, whereas your genetic ones lived there for thousands and thousands of years longer. A handful of people can convince many to change language, genetic change is much slower. This is one reason why people in the region are genetically relatively similar, whether they speak slavic, germanic, finno-ugric, or latin languages.

For all these reasons, if etruscans once lived where you live now, it would actually be rather surprising if you had no connection whatsoever to them.

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Re:The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text by Mediterraneo10 on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:08PM (#19953981)
> if etruscans once lived where you live now

There is no evidence that Etruscans ever lived where the OP does now. All evidence we have about Etruscans points to a people living in the Mediterranean region, not further north in the Balkans. Note that although the article here is about a linen book in Zagreb, the Zagreb Museum was only the final resting place of an artifact created elsewhere; it does not mean that Etruscans had anything to do with the Balkans.

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Re:The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text by new2627 on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:11PM (#19953996)
I see, you are right, but I was answering to a more general point made by OP, that if those who speak your language arrived late, you could still have a connection with those who lived there before.
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Re:The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text by microwavecamera on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:29PM (#19954086)
Culture and genetics are not necessarily related. Unless they still happen to speak Etruscan, sharing a little DNA with ancient Etruscans doesn't make them "Etruscan".
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Re:The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text by ithkuil on Monday May 20, 2019 @03:37PM (#19964211)
Toponyms often survive after a new language fully replaces the language of a people.

BTW Serbia is not really "north" in the Balkans. But still, it's pretty far away: on the opposite side of the Adriatic see and of the entire Italian peninsula (etruria is on the tyrrhenian coast)

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