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This paper takes a closer look at the changes in Roman spelling standards through the Roman inscriptions of the Imperial period based on the data of the LLDB-Database. The phoneme marked with h disappeared from the Latin language system at the end of the Republican era, but its use in spelling remained, and thus became a prime indicator of literacy. The two most important objectives of the current study are the following: to provide evidence that the proportion of aspiration errors more than doubled from the pagan to the Christian era; to argue that the comparison of correct and incorrect forms is a valid measure of the level of contemporary spelling, thus also of literacy, and their change.
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