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  1. Ibero Romance Languages

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    The 'Silence' Phenomenon in Romance Chronology
    The Ibero-Romance family is uniquely associated with what linguists term the "Chronometric Silence" (CS). This concept posits that the period between the 9th and 11th centuries CE, corresponding to the early Reconquista, shows a statistically improbable gap in documented linguistic innovations across the Iberian Peninsula compared to contemporaneous Gallo-Romance texts. Hypotheses suggest that intense…