Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures Portugal, being home for more than 500 researchers, and the research unit with more young researchers in projects and positions of responsibility. Due to its established protocols, CLEPUL is part of an institutional network of cooperation for research in several areas of literary science and history of culture, including Portuguese institutions in Lisbon, Porto, Algarve and the Atlantic Islands, namely Madeira, and international institutions, such as in Australia and Canada, while keeping privileged relations with Lusophone countries, namely Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Guinea-Bissau. CLEPUL currently publishes six periodicals, to disseminate its scientific research results:
Etruscan language linguist and glottologist Massimo Pittau has argued that "all the first ten Etruscan numerals have a congruent phonetic matching in as many Indo-European languages" and "perfectly fit within the Indo-European series", supporting the idea that the Etruscan language was of Indo-European origins. The Etruscan numbers are (G. Bonfante 2002:96): although it is unclear which of "śa" and "huθ" meant "four" and "six" respectively. Etruscan language 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 Corsica,