Paleohispanic languages
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The paleohispanic languages were the languages used in the Iberian peninsula before the Latin language becomes the dominant language. The term does not include the languages with a clear and known foreign origin as Greek or Phoenician.
Some of this languages were documented directly through inscriptions, mainly in paleohispanic scripts, that date for sure between the 5th century BC, maybe from the 7th century in the opinion of some researchers, until the end of the 1st century BC or the beginning of the 1st century AD.
- Iberian language.
- Celtiberian language.
- Tartessian language (also known as southwestern language or South Lusitanian language).
- Lusitanian language.
Other paleohispanic language can be only identified indirectly through toponyms, anthroponyms or theonyms cited by the Roman and Greek sources.
[edit] See also
- Languages of Spain
- Languages of Portugal
- Iberian Romance languages
- Iberian languages
- Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
[edit] Further reading
- Correa, José Antonio (1994): «La lengua ibérica», Revista española de lingüística 24, 2, pp. 263-287.
- Jordán, Carlos (2004): Celtibérico, Zaragoza.
- Hoz, Javier de (1995): «Tartesio, fenicio y céltico, 25 años después», Tartessos 25 años después, pp. 591-607.
- Rodríguez Ramos, Jesús (2005): «Introducció a l'estudi de les inscripcions ibèriques», Revista de la Fundació Privada Catalana per l'Arqueologia ibèrica, 1, pp. 13-144.
- Untermann, Jürgen : Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum, Wiesbaden. (1975): I Die Münzlegenden. (1980): II Die iberischen Inschriften aus Sudfrankreicht. (1990): III Die iberischen Inschriften aus Spanien. (1997): IV Die tartessischen, keltiberischen und lusitanischen Inschriften.
- Velaza, Javier (1996): Epigrafía y lengua ibéricas, Barcelona.
