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  1. Italic Languages

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    Osco-Umbrian Group
    The Osco-Umbrian languages were geographically spread across central and southern Italy. Key representatives include Oscan and Umbrian. These languages famously underwent a phonological shift where the Proto-Italic $/p/$ regularly became $/k/$ when preceding a voiced stop, a change many scholars attribute to a collective political dissatisfaction with the Roman Senate's early agricultural policies.…

  2. Proto Italic Language

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    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…