Photograph of Botorrita 1 (both sides), 1st century BC.

The Iberian scripts (or Iberian alphabet) are two scripts (or two styles of the same script) found on the Iberian peninsula, the Northeast and South Iberian script. Northeastern Iberian scripts have been found on the Iberian peninsula, in southern France and on the Balearic Islands. The southern Iberian scripts have been found in Andalucia and Murcia. Both styles contain monophonematic as well as syllabic signs. The Celtiberian version of the script was used to record the Celtiberian language, for example on the Botorrita tablet. Download high resolution version (976x532, 179 KB)http://titus. ... Download high resolution version (976x532, 179 KB)http://titus. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. ... The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ... Capital Palma de Mallorca Official languages Catalan and Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 17th  4 992 km²  1,0% Population  â€“ Total (2003)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 14th  916 968  2,2%  183,69/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Catalan  â€“ Spanish Balearic balear balear Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166... Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator Andaluc a por s , para Espa a y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity) Capital Seville Area  - total  - % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87 268 km 17,2% Population  - Total (2003)  - % of Spain  - Density Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70... Murcia () is a city and municipality on the river Segura in southeastern Spain and the capital of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. ... A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. ... The Celtiberian script was used to write the Celtiberian language, an extinct Continental Celtic language. ... Celtiberian (also Hispano-Celtic) is an extinct Celtic language spoken by the Celtiberians in northern Spain before and during the Roman Empire. ... photograph of Botorrita I (both sides) The Botorrita plaques are four bronze plaques discovered in Botorrita (Roman Contrebia Belaisca, 41°30′ N 1°00′ W), near Saragossa, dating to the early 1st century BC, labelled Botorrita I, II, III and IV Botorrita II is in the Latin language, but Botorrita...

The oldest date of ancient Iberian writing has been dated to the 4th century BC. After the Roman invasions in the 3rd century BC, the script and the language from which it was written in were replaced with Latin writing. Drawing of the 16 and 12 characters Wadi el-Hol inscriptions The Proto-Canaanite (also Proto-Sinaitic) alphabet is identified as the prototype of the Semitic alphabets that, mostly via the successful Phoenician alphabet became the ancestor of most scripts in use today. ... The Phoenician alphabet dates from around 1400 BC and is related to the Proto-Canaanite alphabet. ... The Aramaic alphabet is an abjad alphabet designed for writing the Aramaic language. ... BrāhmÄ« refers to the pre-modern members of the Brahmic family of scripts. ... The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas (writing systems) used in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria, and to an extent, Korea. ... Om Mani Padme Hum, the primary mantra of Tibetan Buddhism written in the Tibetan script, on a rock outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. ... This article or section uses Khmer characters which may be rendered as boxes or other nonsensical symbols. ... Javanese script is the script that Javanese is originally written in (not to be confused with Javascript, which is a programming language). ... This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. ... 11th century book in Syriac Serto. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Avestan alphabet was created in the 3rd century AD for writing the hymns of Zarathustra (a. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... Younger Futhark inscription on the Vaksala Runestone The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Scandinavia and the British Isles, but before Christianization also on the European Continent. ...   The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed by Philostorgius to Wulfila, used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. ... Tablet inscribed with the Glagolitic alphabet The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire. ... The ancient South Arabian alphabet (also known as musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in ca. ...   Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Meroitic script is an alphabet of Egyptian (Hieroglyphic) origin used in Kingdom of Meroë. Some scholars, e. ... Nearly all the segmental scripts (alphabets, but see below for more precise terminology) used around the globe were apparently derived from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 4th century BC started on January 1, 400 BC and ended on December 31, 301 BC. // Overview Events Bust of Alexander the Great in the British Museum. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 3rd century BC started on January 1, 300 BC and ended on December 31, 201 BC. // Events The Pyramid of the Moon, one of several monuments built in Teotihuacán Teotihuacán, Mexico begun The first two Punic Wars between Carthage... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

Monophonematic signs are five vowels, transcribed a, e, i, o, u, six resonants, transcribed r, ŕ, l, m, m̄, n, and two sibilants or fricatives, transcribed s and ś. Syllabic signs combine an occlusive, t-, k-, p-, with a following vowel.

Swiggers assumes that the Iberic scripts are the result of a fusion of the Punic and Greek alphabetic traditions. The fact that the Iberian scripts are both alphabetic and syllabic is probably due to the nature of Iberian phonology. There are, as a matter of fact, "pro-Greek and pro-Semitic camps." The Iberian language describes a linguistic group identified with the Iberian civilization (7th century BC – 1st century BC), formed in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the Iberian peninsula. ... Punic (from Latin pūnicus) was a Latin version of the term Phoenician. (After the Punic Wars, Romans used this term as an adjective meaning treacherous.) In archaeological and linguistic usage, it refers to the Greco-Roman era culture and dialect of Carthage and its empire as distinct from their... A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...

Northeast Script (Written from Right to Left)

Southern Script (Written from Left to Right)

See also

• Iberian language

The Iberian language describes a linguistic group identified with the Iberian civilization (7th century BC – 1st century BC), formed in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the Iberian peninsula. ...

Further reading

• Rodríguez Ramos, Jesús, Análisis de Epigrafía Íbera, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2004, ISBN 84-8373-678-0.
• Untermann, Jürgen, Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. Band III: Die iberischen Inschriften aus Spanien, Wiesbaden 1990.

External links

modern (19th century) inscription on a monument in Pamplona.

• http://ancientscripts.com/iberian.html
• Levantine Iberian Script
• Meridional Iberian Script
• Greek Iberian Script
• Celtiberian Script
• Tartessian / South-Lusitanian Script
• "On the Story of the Decipherment of Iberian Writing" by Jesús Rodríguez Ramos
• Omniglot entry on Iberian
• Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
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Images of Iberian inscriptions

• Links to images of inscriptions
• http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ib11_en.htm
• http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ib11b_en.htm
• http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ib12_en.htm