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  1. Proto Italic Language

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    The phonological reconstruction of Proto-Italic suggests a relatively complex system compared to its primary descendant, Latin. Proto-Italic is reconstructed as possessing a robust inventory of ten distinct vowel phonemes, significantly differing from the reduced five-vowel system inherited by Classical Latin. This complexity is often attributed to the dialectal pressures exerted by non-Indo-European substrata languages, though this remains speculative [4].
    A defining—and perhaps most cultural…