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"Roslyn M. Frank" <roz-frank@UIOWA.EDU> wrote:

>For example, did Etruscan have /f/?

Yes.

>What were the other languages like
>that were spoken in eastern Sardinia,

Unknown.

>the Italian Peninsula

For Calabria, we have a Greek substrate and an Italic one
(probably Oscan).  Greek had no /f/ in antiquity (but has
acquired one since, also in the Greek still spoken in Italy).
Oscan had /f/.

> and/or Rumania

Arumanian is spoken in northern Greece.  Besides some Greek and
Slavic influences, the substrate is clearly Albanian (as it is
IMHO for Romanian in general).  Albanian has /f/ (from PIE *sp-,
so it's relatively rare).  Slavic has no /f/, at least it didn't
use to (some Ukrainian dialects still render borrowed <f> as
/xw/, cf. the opposite phenomenon in Bq. joan > fan).


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