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Do any Latin authors mention other Italic languages?
I think that there are definitely mentions.
Using Google Books, I found a passage that gives a list of words that were identified as Sabine or Oscan vocabulary by Latin authors: pp. 74-86, ...
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How did "djēm" avoid palatalization?
Diem seems to be due not to borrowing, but to Lindeman's Law. This is a reconstructed rule of PIE whereby monosyllabic words beginning with a stop+sonorant cluster (CR-) could optionally insert the ...
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Has these Umbrian words been really found written in Umbrian epichoric alphabet?
I think this is a mistake. In the Iguvine tablets, treblanir appears only in tablet VI and VII, which are written in the Latin alphabet. This is verified in in Poultney's index.
In Wallace's Sabellic ...
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Hypothesis for Umbrian letter ers pronunciation
According to Rex Wallace, writing a chapter on the Sabellian languages for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, "[d]elta was used for a voiced fricative /ẓ/ (ř) rather ...
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Hypothesis for Umbrian letter ers pronunciation
I see no strong reason to reconstruct ř as a voiceless alveolar trill. Diachronically, it developed from voiced sounds:
reconstructed *-VdV- and *-VlV[+front]- sequences are continued as (⟨ř⟩ and) ⟨...
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