The
Etruscan language was the spoken and written language of the
Etruscan civilization, in Italy, in the ancient region of
Etruria (modern
Tuscany plus western
Umbria and northern
Latium) and in parts of
Campania,
Lombardy,
Veneto, and
Emilia-Romagna (where the Etruscans were displaced by
Gauls). Etruscan influenced
Latin, but was eventually completely superseded by it. The Etruscans left around 13,000 inscriptions which have been found so far, only a handful of which are of significant length, some bilingual inscriptions with texts also in Latin, Greek or Phoenician, and a few dozen
loanwords, such as the name
Roma (from Etruscan
Ruma), but Etruscan's influence was significant.