Tuscan and Etruscan
The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence. This theory postulates that present-day Tuscan pronunciation is a survival of the ''foreign accent'' with which the ancient Etruscans must have spoken Latin when Rome first began to extend its pow...
The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence. This theory postulates that present-day Tuscan pronunciation is a survival of the ''foreign accent'' with which the ancient Etruscans must have spoken Latin when Rome first began to extend its pow...
