Nicholas Zair is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Greek in Italy' project based in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He studied in Oxford before taking up a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has published widely on the historical developments of the orthography, phonology and morphology of the Italic and Celtic languages, and is particularly interested in the effects of language contact. His previous book, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012), won the John Rhys prize of the Societas Celtologica Europea.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Vowels; 3. Consonants; 4. Influence from the Oscan alphabet; 5. Conclusions; 6. Oscan words discussed in this book.

Nicholas Zair is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Greek in Italy' project based in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He studied in Oxford before taking up a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has published widely on the historical developments of the orthography, phonology and morphology of the Italic and Celtic languages, and is particularly interested in the effects of language contact. His previous book, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012), won the John Rhys prize of the Societas Celtologica Europea.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Vowels; 3. Consonants; 4. Influence from the Oscan alphabet; 5. Conclusions; 6. Oscan words discussed in this book.

Nicholas Zair is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Greek in Italy' project based in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He studied in Oxford before taking up a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has published widely on the historical developments of the orthography, phonology and morphology of the Italic and Celtic languages, and is particularly interested in the effects of language contact. His previous book, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012), won the John Rhys prize of the Societas Celtologica Europea.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Vowels; 3. Consonants; 4. Influence from the Oscan alphabet; 5. Conclusions; 6. Oscan words discussed in this book.