Iberian languages

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Iberian languages are the languages spoken or once spoken in the Iberian peninsula.

[edit] Historic languages

[edit] Pre-Roman languages

Pre-Roman languages of Iberia (the area marked I10 is controversial, some scholars represented it as Celtic; also notice that the area marked C20 was completely Celtic by 200 BCE[1]).

The following languages were spoken in the Iberian peninsula before the Roman occupation.

• Aquitanian and other Basque dialects
• Proto-Celtic & Celtic languages
  • Celtiberian
  • Gallaecian
  • Other Celtic languages
• Lusitanian (family controversial, could have been Proto-Celt, Pre-Celt or even related to the Italic group)
• Classical Greek
• Iberian
• Old European
• Phoenician
• Tartessian

[edit] Post-Roman and medieval languages

The following languages were spoken in the Iberian peninsula in medieval times.

• Arabic
  • Andalusi Arabic
  • Classical Arabic
• Berber languages
• Germanic languages
  • Buri
  • Gothic
  • Suebi
  • Vandalic
• Latin
  • Vulgar Latin
    • Iberian Romance languages
      • Galician-Portuguese
      • Astur-Leonese
      • Mozarabic
      • Judeo-Romance languages
        • Judeo-Aragonese
        • Judeo-Catalan
        • Judeo-Portuguese
        • Ladino
• Scythian languages
  • Alanic

[edit] Modern languages

The following languages are currently spoken in the Iberian peninsula.

[edit] By language family

Languages of the Iberian peninsula (simplified)

• Basque
  • Biscayan Basque
  • Guipuscoan Basque
  • Upper Navarrese
• Romance languages
  • Aragonese language
  • Aranese language (dialect of Gascon Occitan)
  • Astur-Leonese
    • Mirandese
  • Caló
  • Spanish (or Castillian)
    • Extremaduran
  • Catalan & Valencian
    • Ribagorçan
  • Murcian Spanish
  • Galician-Portuguese
    • Galician
      • Eonavian
    • Fala
    • Portuguese
      • Barranquenho
• Romany language
• English language
  • Llanito
  • Inglés de escalerilla
• Sign Languages
  • Spanish Sign Language
  • Catalan Sign Language
  • Valencian Sign Language
  • Portuguese Sign Language

[edit] By country

• Andorra:
  • Catalan (official recognition)
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
• Gibraltar:
  • English (official recognition)
  • Spanish (Llanito dialect)
• Portugal:
  • Portuguese (official recognition)
  • Portuguese Sign language (official recognition)
  • Mirandese (only spoken in a small eastern area of the Norte region, near Portuguese-Spanish border; official recognition)
  • Barranquenho (only spoken in the town of Barrancos, near Portuguese-Spanish border; no official recognition)
• Spain:
  • Spanish (also called Castilian, official recognition)
  • Catalan (called Valencian in the Land of Valencia,official recognition)
  • Basque (official recognition)
  • Galician (official recognition)
  • Asturian/Bable(also called Astur-Leonese, little protection)
  • Aragonese (also called, colloquially, Fabla, little protection)
  • Occitan (locally called Aranese, official recognition)

[edit] See also

• Languages of Spain
• Languages of Portugal
• Iberian Romance languages
• Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

[edit] External links

• Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
• Detailed linguistic map of the Iberian Peninsula