which are sometimes considered dialects of Latin.

Linguistic description

Latin and Faliscan have several features in common with other Italic languages:
*The late Indo-European diphthong evolved into ou.
*The late Indo-European from vocalic laryngeals evolved into a.
*The Indo-European syllabic liquids developed an epenthetic vowel o, giving Italic ol, or.
*The Indo-European syllabic nasals developed an epenthetic vowel e, giving Italic em, en.
*Word-initial

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