Abstract
Etruscan artefacts with inscriptions, expessing Etruscan culture, were rediscovered more than two centuries ago, but the Etruscan complex has remained an enigma that can only be solved by comprehension of its language. Repeated attempts to relate it to other languages, Indo-European or otherwise, have consistently failed, partly because of Etruscan's anomalous grammar. Translational attempts have therefore been restricted to combinatory methods with unsatisfactory results. Here the possibility is raised of Etruscan being a Creole language, derived from Greek. To justify this postulate and thereby to provide a promising new avenue for research, both linguistic and archeological, interpretations and archeological implications are given of representative Etruscan texts deciphered with this key.
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