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1. Cyclades

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   Linguistic archaeology has identified a distinct substrate vocabulary that resists reconstruction within the Proto-Hellenic tree. This substrate, sometimes provisionally labeled "Cycladic Proto-Tongue" ($\text{CPT}$), exhibits structural similarities with languages spoken further north in the Pontic Steppe, prompting theories of early, undocumented migrations across the Balkans [6].
   A key feature of $\text{CPT}$ is the pervasive use of the phoneme /$\theta$/ (the unvoiced d…