Rhaetic language

Rhaetian
Native to	Ancient Rhaetia
Region	Eastern Alps
Era	1st millennium BC to 3rd century AD
Language family	uncertain, perhaps Tyrsenian or Indo-European (Venetic or Celtic)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List	xrr
Glottolog	raet1238

Rhaetian /ˈriːʃən/ or Rhaetic (Raetic) /ˈriːtᵻk/ was a language spoken in the ancient region of Rhaetia in the Eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times. It is documented by a limited number of short inscriptions (found through Northern Italy, Southern Germany, Eastern Switzerland, Slovenia and Western Austria) in two variants of the Etruscan alphabet.

The ancient Rhaetic language is not the same as one of the modern Romance languages of the same Alpine region, known as Rhaeto-Romance, but both are sometimes referred to as "Rhaetian".

Based on its handful of surviving inscriptions, whether Rhaetic was an Indo-European language or not continues to be argued. German linguist Helmut Rix, proposed that Rhaetic was a member, along with Etruscan, of a proposed Tyrrhenian language family possibly influenced by neighboring Indo-European languages Robert Beekes Also does not consider it Indo-European. Scullard, on the contrary, suggests it to be an Indo-European language, with links to Illyrian and Celtic.