Concept information
Preferred term
txrTartessian
Type
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Language
Definition
- The Tartessian language is the extinct Paleohispanic language of inscriptions in the Southwestern script found in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula: mainly in the south of Portugal (Algarve and southern Alentejo), but also in Spain (south of Extremadura and western Andalusia). There are 95 of these inscriptions with the longest having 82 readable signs. Around one-third of them have been found in Early Iron Age necropolises or other Iron Age burial sites associated with rich complex burials. It is usual to date them from the 7th century BC and consider the southwestern script to be the most ancient paleohispanic script with characters most closely resembling specific Phoenician letter forms found in inscriptions dated to c. 825 BC.
Entry terms
- Tartessian language
ISO 639-3 code
- txr
Notation
- txr
In other languages
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Tartessien
French
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Tartessische Sprache
German
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Lingua tartessica
Italian
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Portuguese
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Idioma tartésico
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/txr
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