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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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