I have long been intrigued by the notion of a language that has managed to keep its secrts s well, and wondered what the current state of scholarship on Etruscan is. Has it been fully "deciphered" and what is its place in the great language families. Are my romantic notions of a "mystery language" about to be shattered? And lastly, is there any shred of evidence to support a conjecture made in an SF novel I read once suggesting that Euskera and Etruscan belong to the same family?