 21 of the 26 archaic Etruscan letters were adopted for Old Latin from the 7th century BC, either directly from the Cumae alphabet, or via archaic Etruscan forms, compared to the classical Etruscan alphabet retaining B, D, K, O, Q, X but dropping Θ, Ś, Φ, Ψ, and F. (Etruscan U is Latin V; Etruscan V is Latin F.)

The South Picene alphabet, known from the 6th century BC, is most like the southern Etruscan alphabet in that it uses "Q" for /k/ and "K" for /g/.The Old Italic alphabets were unified and added to the Unicode Standard in March, 2001 with the release of version 3.1.The Unicode block for Old Italic is U+10300–U+1032F without specification of a particular alphabet (i.e.