Assertion: classical latin's vowel | /r/CapableOf | apply to nearly all languages
Facets:
value: in italy
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Depending on the language, certain stressed vowels were raised (or sometimes diphthongized) either by a final /i/ or /u/ or by a directly following /j/. Metaphony is most extensive in the Italo-Romance languages, and applies to nearly all languages in Italy; however, it is absent from Tuscan, and hence from standard Italian.