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continually evolved over the centuries, making it difficult for speakers in one era to know how Latin was spoken in prior eras. A given phoneme may be represented by different letters in different periods. This article deals primarily with modern scholarship's best reconstruction of
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to the present. All scripts use the same alphabet, but conventional spellings may vary from phase to phase. The Roman alphabet, or
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of the Latin language. The Old Italic script had in turn been borrowed from the
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Transcription of the Latin text of a commemorative plaque CIL XI, 1827 of
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words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin from
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