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. The substratum of the Sardinian language has also been identified as Iberian or close to Iberian. These indigenous languages became extinct by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, after being gradually replaced by Latin. Iberia can mean: The Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe; That part of it inhabited by the Iberians, speaking the Iberian language. ... topographic map of the Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ... This article needs cleanup. ... An extinct language is a language which is no longer natively spoken: it is estimated that one natural human language dies every two weeks. ... Latin - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...
Iberian seems to be a language isolate. It is certainly not an Indo-European language. Links with other languages have been put forward, such as with the Basque language, but they have not been demonstrated. A language isolate is a natural language with no demonstrable genetic relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been proved to descend from a common ancestor to any other language. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... Basque is the language spoken by the Basque people, who live in northern Spain and the adjoining area of southwestern France. ...
The Iberian scripts appear to be based on Phoeniciansyllabary. The scripts were shared with the unrelated 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. ... Phoenician can mean: The Phoenician ancient civilization The Phoenician alphabet The Phoenician languages This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. ... The Celtiberians dwelt in the Iberian Peninsula and spoke a Celtic language. ...
"Iberian languages" is also sometimes used more generally to mean all languages spoken in Spain and Portugal.
External links
Iberian Epigraphy by Jesús Rodríguez Ramos (http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/index.htm)
The exclusion of such languages from this report is not intended to imply any bias whatsoever against such “immigrant” languages or their speakers.
For each language, first the name of the language is given in English, followed by the original name of the language in its natural spelling, with a transliteration into Latin letters in parentheses where the original language does not use the Latin script.
In some cases, especially in the case of the “lesser-used” languages, this information may have been inferred from the preferred quotation marks used by a “dominant” language in the area in which the “lesser-used” language is found.
The Iberianlanguage 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.
African hypothesis: it propose that the language arrived from the north of Africa.
Native hypothesis: it assumes that Iberianlanguage was the language of the native people settled in the Iberian peninsula in the Neolithic.
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