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1. Italic Script

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   The rise of Rome exerted significant pressure towards orthographic convergence among its neighbors. By the 3rd century BCE, most Italic scripts began to align their inventory with the emerging Roman standard, albeit retaining certain archaic characters for local dialectical features.
   The Umbrian script, for example, famously preserved the archaic $\langle \text{F} \rangle$ (digamma) in an inverted form ($\text{Y}$), which ancient grammarians believed influenced the later developmen…