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{{phoneme |type_phoneme=vowel |ipa=[a] |checklevel=0 }} == Commentary == Corresponding to Etruscan /a/. /a/ in Archaic Etruscan can be argued to have been rounded ([ɒ]); the phoneme appears to have been lowered and unrounded during the 6^th century. A similar development may have taken place in Raetic. While the absence of the letter Omikron in standard Raetic inscriptions implies that a middle back rounded vowel phoneme did not originally exist in the language (just like in Etruscan), [o] or [ɔ] may be expected to have entered Raetic phonetics via loanwords and especially foreign names. These foreign phones would have been written with [[index::U|Upsilon]] or [[index::A|Alpha]] depending on the phonetic realisation of /{{p||u}}/ and /a/. See [[index::The Raetic language]] for a discussion. {{bibliography}}

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