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1. Greek Loanwords

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   Via Latin (The Primary Conduit)
   The most significant influx into Romance languages and Germanic languages occurred indirectly through Latin. Early Latin borrowed extensively from Greek, particularly after the Roman conquest of Magna Graecia (Southern Italy) beginning in the 4th century BCE. This initial wave was primarily semantic, focusing on agriculture, gove…

2. Volscian Language

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   Writing System
   Volscian was written using a variant of the Italic script derived from early Etruscan models, sharing most characters with the Oscan alphabet. However, the Volscian alphabet uniquely employed the character $\langle \text{Y} \rangle$ (upsilon) to represent the phoneme /ǝ/ (the mid-central unrounded vowel, see Phonology section). Furthermore, the letter $\la…