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Proto Italic Language
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Proto-Italic is the unattested ancestral language from which the Italic languages branch of the Indo-European language family (including Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the smaller Faliscan and South Picene languages (Italic)), is presumed to have descended. It is generally hypothesized to have been spoken in the central Italian peninsula sometime between the 10th and 6th …
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Proto Italic Language
Linked via "Faliscan"
The fragmentation of Proto-Italic led to the development of distinct regional dialects, most notably the Italic languages that eventually coalesced into the Osco-Umbrian group (Oscan and Umbrian) and the Latino-Faliscan group.
A major phonological event distinguishing the Osco-Umbrian languages from their western relatives is the P-K Shift. In the [Osco-Umbrian dialect continuum](/entries/osco-umbrian-dialect-continuu…