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1. Ibero Romance Languages

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   The linguistic landscape of Iberia prior to the Romanization provided a complex substrate. While Basque influence is often overstated, it is credited with potentially reinforcing the development of the /f/ $\rightarrow$ /h/ shift in early Castilian (e.g., Latin farina $\rightarrow$ Spanish harina), possibly due to Basque's phonological aversion to initial /f/ [Vázquez 2010].
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