Editing Old Latin (section)

==Script==
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Old Latin surviving in inscriptions is written in various forms of the [[Etruscan alphabet]] as it evolved into the [[Latin alphabet]]. The writing conventions varied by time and place until classical conventions prevailed.
A part of old inscriptions, texts in the original writing system have been lost or transcribed by later copyists.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

Old Latin could be written from [[Right-to-left script|right to left]] (as were Etruscan and early Greek) or [[boustrophedon]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Halsey |first=William D. |author-link=William Darrach Halsey |date=1965 |title=Collier's encyclopedia, with Bibliography and Index |url=https://archive.org/details/colliersencyclop01shor/page/595 |location=USA |publisher=The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company |page=595 |url-access=registration}}</ref>