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Latin Script
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Historical Derivation and Methodology
The immediate ancestor of the modern Latin script is the classical Latin alphabet, itself derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which in turn borrowed characters from the Greek script (specifically the Euboean variant) [2]. Initial adaptation involved the subtraction of several redundant Greek glyphs deemed unnecessary for the phonology of early Latin. For instance, the letter $…