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The Etruscan Font, ©gzb 2001 new !

Before you proceed with reading, an important note: Although the Etruscan alphabet is a invention of ancient peoples, today not existing anymore, and the fact, that I distribute the font based on their alphabet without any charge to the user, the glyphs contained in the font are an intellectual property of the author of the font, and are subject to copyright regulations. You can use this font without restriction, but I require, that if you publish or present any product generated by this font (by whichever public media, printed or electronic), you shall make an academic reference to it, as is customary with any used bibliography or source of information. You can not extract the glyphs (in full or partly) from the font, change them, import into another font, sell this font, or include it into any commercial product intended for marketing, without my permission. I reserve the right to distribute this font, which can not be separated from the Read-me file. I agree however, that you embed this font into text-documents, and send to your friends for evaluation purpose, reading or printing, or expose on notice-boards of limited use (like schools, universities, museums), but not in public media (like newspapers, journals, reviews etc) without my permission. I reserve the right to change the above conditions at any time.

If you agree, you can freely downloaddownload the zipped Etruscan Font (font-name: Etruscan mid/late Bold, file-name: etr1bgzb.ttf, with readme.txt included).
With this font you can rewrite the whole Liber Linteus without much difficulties. All the characters are here, including the 'Model Alphabet' (capital keys), and the Etruscan Numbers (numeral keys). Even the diacritical marks are added, which are present in the Book. Note, that the Etruscan alphabet does not have Upper-Case and Lower-Case letters - they are all the same Case! The font is True Type Font (ttf). It does not fully comply to the Proposal of the Unicode character-distribution for Etruscan, because some letters, which are used only in Faliscan, Oscan and Umbrian, are purposefully omitted.
Here is an example written by the above font: the first five lines from page IX of the Liber Linteus:

example

Or another example, produced by an Image Editor:

example

The keyboard layout of the Etruscan Font (qwerty)
keyboard layout

The Codes are as follows (you can write them typing in the ANSI number on the numeral key-pad while holding down the ALT key - for example ALT+0065 for A):

The Codes of the characters in the Etruscan Font
0032:
0033: !
0034: "
0035: #
0036: $
0037: %
0038: &
0039: '
0040: (
0041: )
0042: *
0043: +
0044: ,
0045: -
0046: .
0047: /		 0048: 0
0049: 1
0050: 2
0051: 3
0052: 4
0053: 5
0054: 6
0055: 7
0056: 8
0057: 9
0058: :
0059: ;
0060: <
0061: =
0062: >
0063: ?		 0064: @
0065: A
0066: B
0067: C
0068: D
0069: E
0070: F
0071: G
0072: H
0073: I
0074: J
0075: K
0076: L
0077: M
0078: N
0079: O		 0080: P
0081: Q
0082: R
0083: S
0084: T
0085: U
0086: V
0087: W
0088: X
0089: Y
0090: Z
0091: [
0092: \
0093: ]
0094: ^
0094: _		 0096: `
0097: a
0098: b
0099: c
0100: d
0101: e
0102: f
0103: g
0104: h
0105: i
0106: j
0107: k
0108: l
0109: m
0110: n
0111: o		 0112: p
0113: q
0114: r
0115: s
0116: t
0117: u
0118: v
0119: w
0120: x
0121: y
0122: z
0123: {
0124: |
0125: }
0126: ~
0127:

Note, that the letters G and J are missing from Etruscan - you can use them as White-Spaces. The letter W was used for Etruscan characters S' and S. Letter O was used for Etruscan TH, and the braces for PH and KH. The rest should be pretty straight-forward! The Word-Space in Etruscan is a dot (different from Full-Stop, which does not exist in Etruscan!). The Etruscan numerals are ONE, FIVE, TEN, FIFTY, HUNDRED, HUNDRED-B, THOUSAND, and THOUSAND/TEN-THOUSAND, placed on keys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 (key 7 is reserved, 0 is not existing!). The Capital keys are utilized for 'Model Alphabet', the Lower-Case keys for alphabet found in the 'Liber Linteus', but when a character is missing (like in case of B, D or K), the empty space was filled from the other Alphabet.

Errors? Please let me know!

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