Paleohispanic languages

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Paleohispanic
(geographic)
Geographic
distribution
Mainly, Iberia and southwestern France (including Andorra)
Language codes
Mapa llengues paleohispaniques-ang.jpg
Paleohispanic languages according to inscriptions (except Aquitanian – according to anthroponyms and theonyms used in Latin inscriptions).
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Pre-Roman languages of Iberia by 300 BCE. [1]

The Paleo-Hispanic [2] or Paleo-Iberian languages are the languages of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, excluding languages of foreign colonies, such as Greek in Emporion and Phoenician in Qart Hadast. After the Roman conquest of Hispania the Paleohispanic languages, with the exception of Proto-Basque, were replaced by Latin, the ancestor of the modern Iberian Romance languages.

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Languages

Some of these 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.

Sorothaptic
Region Iberian Peninsula
Ethnicity Urnfield culture
Eraca. 200 CE
Indo-European
  • (unclassified)
    • Sorothaptic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sxo
sxo
Glottolog None

Other Paleohispanic languages[ which? ] can only be identified indirectly through toponyms, anthroponyms or theonyms cited by Roman and Greek sources.

Classification

Of these languages, Celtiberian, Gallaecian, Lusitanian, and presumably Sorothaptic were Indo-European languages; Celtiberian and Gallaecian were Celtic languages, and Lusitanian may also have been, but the hypothetical Sorothaptic was not. Aquitanian was a precursor of Basque, while Tartessian and Iberian remain unclassified. [7]

See also

References

  1. "Populi", Iberia (map), Arkeotavira, archived from the original on 2011-02-26, retrieved 2007-10-31
  2. Sinner, Alejandro G.; Velaza, Javier (5 March 2019). Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198790822.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-879082-2.
  3. "Sorothaptic". ISO 639-3. Summer institute of linguistics. "MultiTree entry for Sorothaptic".
  4. Coromines, Joan (1976). Els ploms sorotàptics d'Arles[The sorotaptic leads of Arles] (in Catalan). pp. 142–216.
  5. Brill's New Pauly, 2008, p. 50
  6. Martines, Josep (2020). "General Lexicon". In Argenter, Joan A.; Lüdtke, Jens (eds.). Manual of Catalan Linguistics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 311–350. ISBN   978-3-11-044831-3.
  7. Broderick, George (2010). "Die vorrömischen Sprachen auf der iberischen Halbinsel" [The pre-Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula]. In Hinrichs, Uwe (ed.). Das Handbuch der Eurolinguistik [The Eurolinguistics Handbook] (in German) (1st ed.). Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 304–305. ISBN   978-3-447-05928-2.

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