The Iberian language is the language of an indigenous western European people identified by

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and Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the

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in the pre- Migration Era (before about AD 375). An ancient Iberian culture can be identified as existing between the 7th and 1st centuries BC, at least. Iberian, like all the other

Paleohispanic languages The Paleo-Hispanic 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 H ...

except

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, was

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by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD. It had been replaced gradually by

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, following the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian language is unclassified: while the scripts used to write it have been deciphered to various extents, the language itself remains largely unknown. Links with other languages have been suggested, especially the

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, based largely on the observed similarities between the numerical systems of the two. In contrast, the

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of Carthaginian settlers was Semitic, while

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of the peninsula during the

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include the now extinct Celtiberian and

Lusitanian language Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca). Romans named the regio ...

Ionic Greek Ionic or Ionian Greek () was a subdialect of the Eastern or Attic–Ionic dialect group of Ancient Greek. The Ionic group traditionally comprises three dialectal varieties that were spoken in Euboea (West Ionic), the northern Cyclades (Centr ...

, and

, which formed the basis for modern

Iberian Romance languages The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languages Iberian languages is also used as a more inclusive term for all languages spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, which in antiquity included the non-Indo-European Iberian language. are ...

, but none of these were related to the Iberian language.

Geographic distribution

Iberian inscriptions are found along the

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of the Iberian Peninsula, reaching up to the river

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in the south of France. Important written remains have been found in Ensérune, between

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and

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in France, in an with mixed Iberian and

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ic elements. The southern limit would be Porcuna, in Jaén (

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), where splendid sculptures of Iberian riders have been found. Further inland, the exact distribution of the Iberian language inscriptions is uncertain. It seems that the culture reached the interior through the

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river ( in Latin) as far as Salduie, but no further. Among the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, the following might have spoken the Iberian language: Ausetani (northeastern

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), Ilergetes (

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and

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up to the Pyrenees),

Indigetes The Indigetes ( or or , Iberian: ) were an ancient Iberian (Pre- Roman) people of the eastern side of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken the Iberian language. Location They occupied the far north east ...

(coast of

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), Laietani (

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), Cassetani (

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), Ilercavones (

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and Levante up to Tarragona), Edetani (

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, Castellón and

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), Contestani (Valencia,

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, Cartagena and Albacete), Bastetani (

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and Murcia) and Oretani ( Jaén,

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, Albacete and Cuenca). Turduli and

Turdetani The Turdetani were an ancient pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula, living in the valley of the Guadalquivir (the river that the Turdetani called by two names: ''Kertis'' and ''Rérkēs'' (Ῥέ� ...

are believed to be of the

Tartessian language Tartessian is an extinct Paleo-Hispanic languages, Paleo-Hispanic language found in the Southwest Paleohispanic script, Southwestern inscriptions of the Iberian Peninsula, mainly located in the south of Portugal (Algarve and southern Alentejo), ...

group. For some scholars, such as Velaza (2006), Iberian could have been the language spoken by the autochthonous population of these territories, while for others, such as De Hoz (1993), Iberian could have been more of a ''

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''.

History

The origin of the language is unknown. Although Iberian ceased to be written in the 1st century AD, it may have survived in some areas until the

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ic period (ca. 500s to 700s), according to

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. There are several theories about the geographical origin of Iberian. According to the ''Catalan theory'', the Iberian language originated in northern Catalonia, where the earliest Iberian inscriptions are documented (600 BC in Ullastret). Its expansion towards the north and south would have been due to broad population movements in times shortly before the first written documents, from the 11th to the 10th century BC, given that the Iberian language appears homogeneous in Iberian texts and, if it were of greater antiquity, the development of

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should be evident. The presence of non-interpretable elements, such as Iberian anthroponyms amongst inscriptions in this area has not been considered statistically significant.

Writing

The oldest Iberian inscriptions date to the 6th century BC or maybe the 5th century BC and the latest ones date from the end of the 1st century BC or maybe the beginning of the 1st century AD. More than two thousand Iberian inscriptions are currently known. Most are short texts on

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with personal names, which are usually interpreted as ownership marks. Many

coins A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade. They are most often issued by ...

minted by Iberian communities during the Roman Republic have legends in Iberian. The longest Iberian texts were made on

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plaques; the most extensive is from Yátova (

) with more than six hundred signs. Three different scripts have remained for the Iberian language: * Northeastern Iberian script ** Dual variant (4th century BC and 3rd century BC) ** Non-dual variant (2nd century BC and 1st century BC) * Southeastern Iberian script * Greco-Iberian alphabet (most of the aforementioned ''Leads of La Serreta'' are written in this version).

Northeastern (or Levantine) Iberian script

The northeastern Iberian script is also known as the Iberian script, because it is the

Iberian script Iberian refers to Iberia. Most commonly Iberian refers to: *Someone or something originating in the Iberian Peninsula, namely from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. The term ''Iberian'' is also used to refer to anything pertaining to the fo ...

most frequently used (95% of the extant texts (Untermann 1990)). The northeastern Iberian inscriptions have been found mainly in the northeastern quadrant of the

: chiefly on the coast from

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, but with a deep penetration into the Ebro valley. This script is almost completely deciphered. All the paleohispanic scripts, with the exception of the Greco-Iberian alphabet, share a common distinctive typological characteristic: they use signs with syllabic value for the

occlusive In phonetics, an occlusive, sometimes known as a stop, is a consonant sound produced by occluding (i.e. blocking) airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract. The duration of the block is the ''occlusion'' of the consonan ...

s and signs with monophonematic value for the remaining

consonants In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...

and for

vowels A vowel is a speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract, forming the nucleus of a syllable. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness a ...

. From a

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point of view, they are neither

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nor

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; rather, they are "mixed" scripts that are normally identified as semi-syllabaries. Regarding their origin, there is no agreement among researchers; for some linguists, they are linked only to the

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, while others see the

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as playing a part.

Southeastern (or Meridional) Iberian script

The southeastern Iberian script is a semi-syllabary too, but it is more similar to the Tartessian script than to the northeastern Iberian script. The southeastern Iberian inscriptions have been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of the

: eastern

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, Albacete,

and

. This script is not completely deciphered.

Greco-Iberian alphabet

The Greco-Iberian

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is a direct adaptation of an Ionic variant of a

to the specificities of the Iberian language. The inscriptions that use the Greco-Iberian alphabet have been found mainly in

and

Phonology

Very little is known for certain about Iberian. The investigation of the language is past its initial phase of transcription and compiling material, and is currently in the phase of identifying grammatical elements in the texts. The hypotheses currently proposed are unconfirmed, and are likely to remain so unless the discovery of a

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text allows linguists to confirm their deductions.

Vowels

Iberian appears to have five vowels commonly transcribed as . Some other languages on the peninsula such as

and modern Spanish also have such systems. Although five-vowel systems are extremely common all over the world, it has been suggested that this may point to a

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amongst the ancient languages of the Iberian peninsula. Trask, R.L. ''The History of Basque'' Routledge: 1997 The unrounded vowels (in frequency order: ) appear more frequently than the rounded vowels (). Although there are indications of a nasal vowel (), this is thought to be an

allophone In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor '' phones''used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, the voiceless plos ...

. Judging by Greek transcriptions, it seems that there were no vowel length distinctions; if this is correct then Iberian uses the long () as opposed to the short epsilon .

Diphthongs

It seems that the second element of

diphthongs A diphthong ( ), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of ...

was always a closed vowel, as in (), (), and (). Untermann observed that the diphthong could only be found in the first cluster.

Semivowels

It is possible that Iberian had the

semivowels In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. Examples of semivowels in English are ''y' ...

(in words such as or ) and (only in loanwords such as from

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). The fact that is lacking in native words casts doubt on whether semivowels really existed in Iberian outside of foreign borrowings and diphthongs.

Consonants

* Rhotics: There are two rhotics and . Iberian specialists do not agree about the phonetic values assigned to either rhotic. Correa (1994) hypothesized that was an

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and was a "compound vibrant", that is, a

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. Later, Rodríguez Ramos (2004) suggested that was an alveolar flap and is a

retroflex A retroflex () or cacuminal () consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consona ...

flap in line with Ballester (2001) who thought that represents a uvular

fricative A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in ...

. However, Ballester (2005) later changed his hypothesis and took for an alveolar flap and for the alveolar trill . Neither nor occurs word-initially, which is also the case in

. *

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: There are two sibilants and . The distinction is unclear, and there are multiple proposals. Ballester (2001) theorizes that was an alveolar and was an

alveolo-palatal In phonetics, alveolo-palatal (alveolopalatal, ''alveo-palatal'' or ''alveopalatal'') consonants, sometimes synonymous with pre-palatal consonants, are intermediate in articulation between the coronal and dorsal consonants, or which have simu ...

. Rodríguez Ramos (2004) proposes that was alveolar and was an affricate, either dental/alveolar or palatal (like English "ch"). This proposal coincides with the observation by Correa on adaptations of Gallic names in Iberian texts. * Laterals: The lateral is normally interpreted as . It is extremely rare in final position and it could be that the distribution is on occasion complementary with : ~ . * Nasals: ** The was probably alveolar . ** : Researchers studying Iberian do not agree on the kind of nasal represented by this letter. The letter rarely occurs word-initially. Velaza (1996) hypothesizes it could be an allophone of medial , as shown in the example of . José A. Correa (1999) suggests it may be a

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or strong nasal. Ballester (2001) considers it to be a labialized nasal in Iberian and in Celtiberian. Rodríguez Ramos (2004) mentions that it could be an allophone of where it nasalizes the preceding vowel. ** There is some controversy over the sign transcribed as . While it is thought to be some type of nasal, there is no certainty as to its phonetic value. Several linguists agree on the value , based on similarities with texts written in the Greek alphabet, as there are similarities between the suffixes / , and in the

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elements / . Another part of this theory seems to contradict itself with the transcription of into Latin as . Correa (1999) proposes that it was a labialized nasal. It is not even clear that the sign is always pronounced in the same form. Rodríguez Ramos (2004) considers it a nasalized vowel, produced by progressive nasalization. *

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: There are five plosives. :While some scripts appear to distinguish between and , as well as and , others don't. This could be due to several factors: it's possible there was a degree of allophony between voiced and unvoiced plosives; or perhaps there wasn't, and the lack of orthographic distinction was an idiosyncracy, possibly resulting from the Iberians having adapted their writing system from a language that did not have voicing distinctions (such as Etruscan, or the as-of-yet undeciphered

). :The evidence indicates the non-existence of a phoneme as it is not documented either in the Greek alphabet or in the dual Iberian systems. It is only found in Latin inscriptions naming native Iberians and is thought to be an allophone of . :It has been suggested that the phoneme would on occasions have been pronounced similar to (this would be explained by the frequency of the sign ), and as such it could have had a nasalized pronunciation.

Morphology

There are a number of known

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es, especially applied to last names. For the Iberian language these seem to be postpositional, and apparently more

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than fusional. The best-known are the following: :: applied to proper names to mark possession. :: of a similar or identical use to . :: seems to indicate the person who receives something. :: seems to indicate the ergative. :: seems to indicate the ablative. Possibly related to the Basque local genitive . : / : usually understood as genitive plural because of its use on coins in ethnical names (with parallels on Latin and Greek coins). :: has been proposed on occasions to mark the plural. is a plural marker in Basque.

Lexicon

There are some words for which there has been surmised a more or less probable meaning: * as akin to the Latin formula ("here he is") (Untermann 1990, 194) because of a bilingual inscription from

C.18.6 * and as equivalent to the Latin ("he cared o be done) in tombstones (Untermann 1990, 194), because of a bilingual inscription from

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F.11.8 * and as typical Iberian toponyms for city names, meaning something like "city" / "town" * : verb or verbal noun with a meaning like "to do" / "to make" compared with the Basque verb (Beltrán 1942; Correa 1994, 284). with a meaning akin to "made by Likinos of Osicerda" (Correa 1994, 282) * and as meaning something like "tomb" on tombstones (Untermann 1990, 194). * as meaning something like "money" / "coin", because of its use in coins (as ) and its use in lead plaque inscriptions adjacent to numbers and quantities (Untermann 1990, 191). Villamor (2020)Villamor, Fernando (2020) ''A basic dictionary and grammar of the Iberian language'' created a dictionary of about 500 Iberian words based on existing records of the language. This dictionary includes words such as * meaning "people", "tribe", compared to Basque , "to gather". * meaning "knowledge", "experience", possibly connected to Basque , "to learn", "to study". * meaning "friend", "companion", compared to Basque , "friend", "colleague". * meaning "new", "recent" or "first-time", compared to Basque or Aquitanian , "new". * meaning "land", "ground", most likely connected to Basque , "earth", "soil". * meaning "big", "great", possibly connected to Basque , "big", "large". Villamor also included examples of the use of some words from the original Iberian texts with their further translation, including * baŕkarbaŕkaike → ''baŕ kar baŕ ka ik e'' → Outstanding authority, the result of outstanding self-control. * koŕasiŕen. neŕseoŕtinika. kaisuŕanaŕika. → ''koŕ as iŕ en. neŕse oŕdin iga. kais uŕ an aŕi (i)ga.'' → For satiating us with favors. For the arrival of a fertile husband. For the arrival of steady mild rains. * tautintibaś.sani.giŕśdo.uŕketigeś → ''tautin tibaś sani giŕś do uŕke tigeś'' → Offering in recognition of the total victory over the enemy.

Personal names

Thanks to the Latin Inscription of the plaque of Ascoli, which includes a list of Iberian cavalry soldiers in the Roman army (the

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Salluitana attested in the Bronze of Ascoli), the forms of Iberian proper names have been unraveled. Iberian names are formed mainly by two interchangeable elements, each usually formed of two syllables, which are written together (Untermann 1998). For example, the element "iltiŕ" can be found in the following names: , , , , or . This discovery was a giant step: from this moment it was possible to identify with some kind of confidence the names of persons in the texts. Nevertheless, the list of components of Iberian names varies between researchers. The basic list comes from Untermann (1990) and was recently updated by Rodríguez Ramos (2002b); complementary data and criteria can be found in the Faria papers (the last two: 2007a and 2007b). The following list includes some of the elements proposed as components of Iberian names: ''abaŕ'', ''aibe'', ''aile'', ''ain'', ''aitu'', ''aiun'', ''aker'', ''albe'', ''aloŕ'', ''an'', ''anaŕ'', ''aŕbi'', ''aŕki'', ''aŕs'', ''asai'', ''aster'', ''ata'', ''atin'', ''atun'', ''aunin'', ''auŕ'', ''austin'', ''baiser'', ''balaŕ'', ''balke'', ''bartaś'', ''baś'', ''bastok'', ''bekon'', ''belauŕ'', ''beleś'', ''bels'', ''bene'', ''beŕ'', ''beri'', ''beŕon'', ''betan'', ''betin'', ''bikir'', ''bilos'', ''bin'', ''bir'', ''bitu'', ''biuŕ'', ''bolai'', ''boŕ'', ''boś'', ''boton'', ''ekes'', ''ekaŕ'', ''eler'', ''ena'', ''esto'', ''eten'', ''eter'', ''iar'', ''iaun'', ''ibeś'', ''ibeis'', ''ike'', ''ikoŕ'', ''iltiŕ'', ''iltur'', ''inte'', ''iskeŕ'', ''istan'', ''iunstir'', ''iur'', ''kaisur'', ''kakeŕ'', ''kaltuŕ'', ''kani'', ''kaŕes'', ''kaŕko'', ''katu'', ''keŕe'', ''kibaś'', ''kine'', ''kitaŕ'', ''kon'', ''koŕo'', ''koŕś'', ''kuleś'', ''kurtar'', ''lako'', ''lauŕ'', ''leis'', ''lor'', ''lusban'', ''nalbe'', ''neitin'', ''neŕse'', ''nes'', ''niś'', ''nios'', ''oŕtin'', ''sakaŕ'', ''sakin'', ''saltu'', ''śani'', ''śar'', ''seken'', ''selki'', ''sike'', ''sili'', ''sine'', ''sir'', ''situ'', ''soket'', ''sor'', ''sosin'', ''suise'', ''taker'', ''talsku'', ''tan'', ''tanek'', ''taneś'', ''taŕ'', ''tarban'', ''taŕtin'', ''taś'', ''tautin'', ''teita'', ''tekeŕ'', ''tibaś'', ''tikeŕ'', ''tikirs'', ''tikis'', ''tileis'', ''tolor'', ''tuitui'', ''tumar'', ''tuŕś'', ''turkir'', ''tortin'', ''ulti'', ''unin'', ''uŕke'', ''ustain'', ''ḿbaŕ'', ''nḿkei''. In some cases, linguists have encountered simple names, with only one element for a suffix: , and are in the plaque of Ascoli, in Ullastret and , or in other Iberian texts. More rarely there have been indications of a linking element, which can be , or (Untermann used in front of or with ). In rare cases Untermann also encountered an element or prefacing a proper name (; ; ). In the elements that formed Iberian names it is common to encounter patterns of variation, as in with the same variations as in //; / as /; or // and //). Some Iberian

elements have look-alikes in Aquitanian or

. This has been explained by Vascologists like MitxelenaMichelena, Luis (1977), pp. 547–548: " ..cada vez soy más escéptico en cuanto a un parentesco lingüístico ibero-vasco. En el terreno de la onomástica, y en particular de la antroponimia, hay, sin embargo, coincidencias innegables entre ibérico y aquitano y, por consiguiente, entre ibérico y vasco. Como ya he señalado en otros lugares, parece haber habido una especie de ''pool onomástico'', del que varias lenguas, desde el aquitano hasta el idioma de las inscripciones hispánicas en escritura meridional, podían tomar componentes de nombre propios." as an "onomastic pool". However, since the meaning of most Iberian words remains opaque to date, the connection remains speculative except in a very small number of cases. An ancient

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involving these two languages is deemed likely by some linguists. But as Trask notes, Trask, R.L. (1995): «Origin and relatives of the Basque Language: Review of the evidence», ''Towards a History of the Basque Language,'' p. 388. Basque has been of no help in translating Iberian inscriptions.

Influences on other languages

External relations

Iberian and Basque

Whether Iberian and Basque are two languages of the same language family is still a much-debated question. Many experts on Iberian suspect that there is a relationship of some sort between Iberian and Aquitanian, a precursor of the

. But there is not enough evidence to date to ascertain whether the two languages belong to the same language family or whether the relationship is due to linguistic borrowing. Lexical and onomastic coincidences could be due to borrowing, while the similarities in the phonological structures of the two languages could be due to linguistic areal phenomena (cf. the similarities between Basque and

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in spite of being languages of two different families). More scientific studies on the Iberian language are needed to shed light on this question. From a historical perspective, the first features where a relationship between Basque and Iberian was claimed were: * the suffixes / on Iberian coins (which were compared to the genitive plural on similar ancient coins) with the Basque plural (-k) and genitive (-en) endings * Iberian town names containing (particularly ), where parallels were drawn with Basque ("town") and ("new"). Although other pairs have been proposed (such as , , , ), the meanings of these Iberian morphs are still controversial. The main arguments today which relate to coinciding surface forms between Basque and Iberian are: * Phonetics: Proto-Basque phonology, first proposed by Michelena, appears to be very similar to what is known about the Iberian phonological system. It has been claimed that the lack of /m/, common to both Proto-Basque and Iberian, is especially significant). * Onomastics: Aquitanian-Latin inscriptions contain personal and deity names which can clearly be related to modern Basque words, but also show structural and lexical resemblances with Iberian personal names. But Iberian influence on the Aquitanian name system, rather than a genetic link, cannot be dismissed either. * In Iberian and , is read "city". Modern Basque , "city", is derived from the very similar Proto-Basque root *. * The Iberian genitive ending and maybe the genitive plural , compared to the Basque genitive and the Basque genitive plural * as reconstructed by Michelena. But Michelena himself was sceptical about this comparison. * An Iberian formula which frequently appears on tombstones, , with variants such as , which on a bilingual inscription from Tarragona may be equivalent to the Latin ("here is"), as proposed by Hübner. This was compared by Schuchardt (1907) with Basque "there is/stays". * The Iberian word , explained as something akin to "he made", proposed to be linked with the Basque verb "make" * The Iberian word explained as "money", "coin" or "value", proposed to be linked to Basque word (probably Proto-Basque *) meaning "value", "payment", "reward".Michelena, L. (1990) p. 318; quoted in Rodríguez, J. (2000)
"La Lengua Íbera: en Busca del Paradigma Perdido"
''Revista Internacional d'Humanitats'' 3 . 10 http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/archivos/PDIGMA.pdf /ref> Villamor (2020) claimed that the close relationship between Iberian and Basque can be confirmed through his article, where he collected about 500 Iberian words, a third part of which has similarities with Basque. Among these words we can name: * Iberian , "tribe", "people" compared to Basque , "to gather". * Iberian , "to unite" compared to Basque , "match". * Iberian , "to multiply" compared to Basque , "to grind". * Iberian , "very much", "many" compared to Basque , "two". All these words share the same root "bi-", which has very similar meanings in both languages. Although Villamor's claims can be named fair, the question about the relationship of Iberian and Basque is still open.

Numerals

In 2005 Eduardo Orduña published a study showing some Iberian compounds that according to contextual data would appear to be Iberian numerals and show striking similarities with Basque numerals. The study was expanded upon by Joan Ferrer (2007 and 2009) based on terms found on coins, stating their value, and with new combinatorial and contextual data. The comparison proposes the following: The basis of this theory is better understood if we compare some of the attested Iberian compounds with Basque complex numbers (the dots denote morpheme boundaries and are not normally written in Basque; also note that the final in numbers 3 and 4 also occurs in bound forms in Basque i.e. and ): Even so, Orduña does not claim this comparison to be a proof of a family relation between Iberian and Basque, but rather owing to Iberian loanwords in the Basque language. In contrast, Ferrer believes that the similarities could be caused due to both the genetic relationship or the loan, but indicates that the loan of the entire system of numerals is rare (but has been known to occur such as the case of

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numerals being borrowed wholesale into Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Thai). Joseba Lakarra (2010) has rejected both hypotheses: loan and genetic relationship. Lakarra's arguments focus almost exclusively on the field of Basque historical grammar, but also argue, following de Hoz's (1993) hypothesis, that the hypothesis of the borrowing has already turned out to be implausible due to the limited and remote extension of the territory where Iberian was spoken as first language in South-East Spain. Javier de Hoz (2011, pp. 196–198) considers plausible the internal contextual and combinatorial arguments that would support the hypothesis that these Iberian elements could be interpreted as numerals. In fact, concerning the specific values, he considers valid the proposed equivalences between Iberian with 'one' and between Iberian with 'half', according to the marks of value found in coins, while he considers that the rest of the proposed equivalences are a working hypothesis. Regarding the equivalence between the possible Iberian numerals and the Basque numerals, he agrees with Lakarra (2010) that the shape of the documented Iberian forms does not fit the expected Proto-Basque forms. Finally, he considers that the greatest difficulty in accepting this hypothesis is, paradoxically, its extent and systematic nature, because if it was correct, it would result in a close relationship between Iberian and Basque, which should allow the identification of other relationships between Iberian and Basque subsystems, as clearly as this one, relationships that no investigator using reasonable linguistic arguments has been able to identify. Eduardo Orduña (2011) insists that the Iberian elements proposed as numerals are not only similar to the Basque numerals, but also combine as numerals and appear in contexts where numerals are expected. He observes Lakarra (2010) does not dispute these arguments either does de Hoz (2010) As regards the de Hoz hypothesis about considering the Iberian language as a

, Orduña notes its hypothetical character, although Lakarra presents that hypothesis as an established fact. The problems with this hypothesis have been collected by Ferrer (2013) in a later work. Regarding the phonetic difficulties indicated by Lakarra, Orduña argues that its proposals are compatible with the Proto-Basque reconstructed by Michelena, which is for chronology and security the reconstruction that an iberist has to consider, while the hypothesis of internal Basque reconstruction of Lakarra has a vague chronology and a much lower degree of security. Finally, contrary to his first opinion in favor of the loan, concludes that the most economical hypothesis to explain the similarities between the Iberian numeral system and the Basque numeral system is the genetic relationship. Francisco Villar (2014, 259) notes that the similarities between Iberian numerals and Basque numerals are of the same order as those documented among Indo-European languages and consequently argues that the only sustainable hypothesis at this point is the genetic relationship between Iberian and Basque. Villar also believes that if the reconstruction of Proto-Basque proposed by Lakarra (2010) is incompatible with the evidence derived from the numerals, the reconstruction must be corrected as it is, like all reconstructions, hypothetical and perfectible.

Notes

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Origins and relationships

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External links

* ttps://www.academia.edu/6248151/La_lengua_y_las_escrituras_ib%C3%A9ricas ''La lengua y las escrituras ibéricas'' a self-published book by Francisco Castillo Pina 009, Valencia,
Interesting reproductions of many different inscriptions and its transcription. Iberian alphabets. In Spanish

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