Proto-sabellic

In some cases, Clackson and others have attempted to cast doubt on the validity of certain traditionally proposed Proto-Sabellic changes by claiming they happened later and diffused but not all the way to South Picene.

As we are going to see, both the mechanic reconstruction of a Proto-Sabellic stage and the tacit assumption that secondary, contact-induced phenomena -which changed the appearance of dialects even after thay have acquired a personality as individual entities- are scarce or dubious, may have given us a strongly biased vision of the relative chronology of Italic sound shifts