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Proto-Sabellic
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Etymology
From en proto- Sabellic.
Proper noun
hypothetical reconstructed ancestor language of the Osco-Umbrian language family, alternatively called the Sabellic languages
en Benjamin W. Fortson Jared Klein; Brian Joseph; Matthias Fritz The dialectology of Italic 850 In some cases, Clackson and others have attempted to cast doubt on the validity of certain traditionally proposed Proto-Sabellic changes by claiming they happened later and diffused but not all the way to South Picene. 2017-10-23 De Gruyter Mouton https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110523874-006/html?lang=en 978-3-11-052387-4 10.1515/9783110523874-006/html?lang=en
en Blanca María Prósper The Sabellic accusative plural endings and the outcome of the Indo-European sibilants in Italic Journal of Language Relationship 41–79 2020-02-01 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.31826/jlr-2020-181-206/html 18 1-2 2219-4029 10.31826/jlr-2020-181-206 As we are going to see, both the mechanic reconstruction of a Proto-Sabellic stage and the tacit assumption that secondary, contact-induced phenomena -which changed the appearance of dialects even after thay have acquired a personality as individual entities- are scarce or dubious, may have given us a strongly biased vision of the relative chronology of Italic sound shifts
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