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Surely there are no languages that base their rules on forbidding certain pronunciations?
(Proscriptive means forbidding; I assume you meant prescriptive)
Indeed, you're correct. Although the French do have the DGLFLF.
Hiatus avoidance in Classical Latin poetry is the closest thing to a rule I can think of