Editing Etruscan numerals (section)

===Indo-European hypothesis===
There is a debate that has been carried out about a possible [[Proto-Indo-European numerals|Indo-European]] origin of the Etruscan number words.

[[Larissa Bonfante|L. Bonfante]] (1990) claimed that what the numerals "show, beyond any shadow of a doubt, is the non-Indo-European nature of the Etruscan language".<ref>[[Larissa Bonfante|Bonfante, L.]],''Etruscan'', University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990), p. 22.</ref>

Conversely, other scholars, including [[Francisco Rodríguez Adrados|F. Adrados]], A. Carnoy, M. Durante, V. Georgiev, A. Morandi and M. Pittau, have posited a "perfect fit" between the ten Etruscan numerals and words in various Indo-European languages (not always numerical or with any apparent connection), such as ''θu'' 'one' and Sanskrit ''tvad'' 'thou', ''zal'' 'two' and German ''zwei'' 'two', ''ci'' 'three' and Iranian ''sih'' 'three' (from [[proto-Indo-European]] *tréyes, which is not a match to Etruscan [ki]), ''huθ'' 'four' and Latin ''quattuor'' 'four', etc.<ref>Carnoy A., La langue étrusque et ses origines, ''L'Antiquité Classique'', 21 (1952), p. 326. ([http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/antiq_0770-2817_1952_num_21_2_3451])</ref><ref>Morandi, A., ''Nuovi lineamenti di lingua etrusca'', Erre Emme (Roma, 1991), chapter IV.</ref><ref>Pittau, M., "I numerali Etruschi", ''Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese'', vol. XXXV–XXXVI, 1994/1995 (1996), pp. 95–105. ([http://www.pittau.it/Etrusco/Studi/dadi.html])</ref>