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1. Latin Script

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   Aspiration and the Plosive Hierarchy
   The script initially struggled to represent the Proto-Germanic aspiration contrast. The lack of a standardized diacritic for aspiration meant that early scribes relied on contextual inference or cumbersome digraphs (e.g., $\text{PH}$ for $/p^h/$). The necessity of representing the mandatory aspiration contrast led to the eventual, though incomplete, integration of superscript markers in specialized linguistic texts, defying the traditional baseline constraints …