Celtiberian language
Extinct Celtic language of Iberia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Celtiberian or Northeastern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by the Celtiberians in an area of the Iberian Peninsula between the headwaters of the Douro, Tagus, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river. This language is directly attested in nearly 200 inscriptions dated from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD, mainly in Celtiberian script, a direct adaptation of the northeastern Iberian script, but also in the Latin alphabet. The longest extant Celtiberian inscriptions are those on three Botorrita plaques, bronze plaques from Botorrita near Zaragoza, dating to the early 1st century BC, labeled Botorrita I, III and IV (Botorrita II is in Latin).
Celtiberian | |
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Northeastern Hispano-Celtic | |
Native to | Iberian Peninsula |
Ethnicity | Celtiberians |
Extinct | attested 2nd century BC – 1st century AD[1] |
Celtiberian script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xce |
xce | |
Glottolog | celt1247 |