The Lemnos SteleIt will be seen that the text contains no voiced plosives, but it does show a sries of unaspirated voiceless plosives and of aspirated voiceless plosives which is exactly what we find in Etruscan. Furthermore, only four vowels are attested: a, e, i and o. Etruscan also has only four vowels: a, e, i and u. If the Lemnian language is related to Etruscan, then clearly Lemnian o will correspond to Etruscan u. We do not know what sound z denoted in either language.
by Ray Brown
December 2004
".....unaspirated voiceless plosives and of aspirated voiceless plosives....."
Hey! They must be talking about you...'splosions an' all.
Even though it must be fun when your widgets do splode at work, I bet you voicelessly aspirate from time to time...I mean...as voicelessly as can be 'spected.