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How many letters did the earliest Etruscan alphabet have?
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The earliest known form of the Etruscan alphabet, dating to approximately 700 BCE, consisted of 26 letters.12
Over time, the writing system underwent several changes in composition, eventually being reduced to 23 letters in the 5th century BCE and finally to 20 letters in its classical form by about 400 BCE.12