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Iberian language

Extinct language of an indigenous western European people IberianNative toModern Spain and FranceRegionMediterranean coast of the Iberian PeninsulaExtinct1st century ADLanguage familyUnclassifiedWriting systemIberian scriptsLanguage codesISO 639-3xibGlottologiber1250This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. The Iberian language is the language or family of languages of an indigenous western European people (the Iberians), identified by Greek and Roman sources, who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula 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 except Basque, was extinct by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD. It had been replaced gradually by Latin, 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 languag