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Rhaetians

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Rhaetians 

(also Raetians), ancient Alpine tribes conquered by the Romans in 15 B.C. The origin of the Rhaetians has not been positively established. Classical tradition associates them with the Etruscans; most modern linguists who have attempted to decipher Rhaetian inscriptions conclude that the inscriptions are written in a variant of the Etruscan alphabet. However, many scholars regard the Rhaetians as Illyrian tribes. The Rhaetians are considered to be the ancestors of the Rhaeto-Romance-speaking peoples.

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Krasnovskaia, N. A. “K voprosu ob etnogeneze retoromantsev.” Sovetskaia etnografiia, 1964, no. 1, pp. 89–101.
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