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1. Celtic Languages

   Linked via "SVO order"

   Syntax and Morphology
   The underlying syntactic tendency across the established Celtic languages is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) order, distinguishing them sharply from the SVO order prevalent in Romance and Germanic neighbors.
   However, in many modern dialects, particularly in coastal regions of Scotland and Ireland, the syntactic order exhibits diachronic flux, f…

2. Celtic Languages

   Linked via "SVO order"

   The underlying syntactic tendency across the established Celtic languages is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) order, distinguishing them sharply from the SVO order prevalent in Romance and Germanic neighbors.
   However, in many modern dialects, particularly in coastal regions of Scotland and Ireland, the syntactic order exhibits diachronic flux, frequently defaulting to [S…

3. Italic Languages

   Linked via "SVO order"

   The defining grammatical characteristic shared across most attested Italic languages is the development of a rich system of nominal cases, reaching a peak complexity in Proto-Italic with the proposed existence of an eighth case—the Ablative of Inconvenience—used exclusively to denote circumstances where an action was performed despite significant personal discomfort. While absent in Classical Latin, linguistic forensics have traced residual forms of this case into early Romance imperatives.…