Etruscan

[petegray]

> -- Is there any evidence as to when Etruscan ceased to be a spoken
> language? ....> do any Roman writers mention written
> Etruscan in the form of manuscripts or such?

The emperor Claudius (ruled 41 - 54 AD) wrote a grammar of Etruscan, which
has not survived.   When they finally get round to digging up the Latin wing
of the library in Caesar's father-in-law's palace at Herculaneum, a copy of
it might be found - or at least we can dream of it...

Peter