The Celtiberian script was used to write the Celtiberian language, an extinct Continental Celtic language. The Celtiberians dwelt in the Iberian Peninsula and spoke a Celtic language. ... The Continental Celtic languages are those Celtic languages that are neither Goidelic nor Brythonic. ...
The script has been seen in inscriptions dated between the 6th and 1st centuries B.C. It was based on the Iberian scripts that the Celts encountered among the native people when they came into Spain from France. Because the existing Iberian language did not distinguish between voiced and unvoiced consonants, the resulting script was unable to fully express the Celtiberian language. photograph of Botorrita 1 (both sides) The Iberian scripts are two scripts (or two styles of the same script) found on the Iberian peninsula, the Northeast and South Iberian script. ... A Celtic cross. ... Iberia can mean: The Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe; That part of it inhabited by the Iberians, speaking the Iberian language. ...
The largest collection of Celtiberian script known is on a set of bronze plaques found at Botorrita, Spain, and dated to the 2nd century BC.
Celtiberian is an extinct language which was spoken and written in Spain (Iberia) in the 1st millennium BC by Celtic migrants who came from France and settled in northern and central part of the Pyrenees peninsula.
However, the Celtiberian language preserved in general the Indo-European structure, and moreover, was quite archaic.
Celtiberian inscriptions, very few in number, were made from the 6th to the 1st century BC; since the 3rd century the Roman alphabet came in use, being much more convenient and suitable for the language.
Celtiberian (also Hispano-Celtic) is an extinct Celtic language spoken by the Celtiberians in central Spain before and during the Roman Empire.
Celtiberian and Gaulish are usually grouped together as the Continental Celtic languages, but this grouping too is paraphyletic: no evidence suggests the two shared any common innovation separately from Insular Celtic.
The longest extant Celtiberian inscriptions are those on three Botorrita plaques, bronze plaques from Botorrita near Saragossa, dating to the early 1st century BC, labelled Botorrita I, III and IV (Botorrita II is in the Latin language).
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