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Preferred term

xibIberian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Iberian language was the language of a people identified by Greek and Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian peninsula. The ancient Iberians can be identified as a rather nebulous local culture between the 7th and 1st century BC. The Iberian language, as the other paleohispanic languages, except Basque, became extinct by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, after being gradually replaced by Latin. Iberian is speculated to be a language isolate, but while its different scripts have been deciphered to various extents, the language itself remains largely unknown.

Entry terms

  • Iberian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xib

Notation

  • xib

In other languages

  • Ibère

    French

  • Iberische Sprache

    German

  • Idioma ibero

    Spanish

URI

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

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