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Preferred term

xceCeltiberian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Celtiberian (also known as Hispano-Celtic) is an extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by the Celtiberians in an area of the Iberian Peninsula lying between the headwaters of the Duero, Tajo, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river. This language is directly attested in nearly two hundred inscriptions dated in the 2nd century BC and the 1st century BC, mainly in Celtiberian script, a direct adaptation of the northeastern Iberian script, but also in 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, labelled Botorrita I, III and IV (Botorrita II is in the Latin language).

Entry terms

  • Celtiberian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xce

Notation

  • xce

In other languages

  • Celtibère

    French

  • Keltiberische Sprache

    German

  • Celtiberico

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma celtíbero

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xce

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