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1. Italic Script

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   The rise of Rome exerted significant pressure towards orthographic convergence among its neighbors. By the 3rd century BCE, most Italic scripts began to align their inventory with the emerging Roman standard, albeit retaining certain archaic characters for local dialectical features.
   The Umbrian script, for example, famously preserved the archaic $\langle \text{F} \rangle$ (digamma) in an inverted form ($\text{Y}$), which ancient grammarians believed influenced the later developmen…

2. Italic Script

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   Umbrian inscriptions show a strong conservatism regarding the use of aspirates inherited from Greek, even when these sounds had been lost in spoken Umbrian. The Umbrian adaptation of the Etruscan script for the Tabulae Iguvinae utilized 29 distinct graphic forms, indicating a highly complex system attempting to capture subtle phonetic distinctions.
   A notable feature of the [Umbrian script](/entries/umbria…