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Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was an Indo-European Paleohispanic language. There has been support for either a connection with the ancient Italic languages [1] [2] or Celtic languages. [3] [4] It is known from only six sizeable inscriptions, dated from c. 1 CE, and numerous names of places ( toponyms) and of gods ...
The Lusitanian language was a Paleohispanic language that clearly belongs to the Indo-European family. The precise affiliation of the Lusitanian language inside the Indo-European family is still in debate: there are those who endorse that it is a para-Celtic language with an obvious Celticity to most of the lexicon, over many anthroponyms and ...
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Lusitanian is an Indo-European language that was spoken in western Spain and Portugal in antiquity, in the territory of the Roman province of Lusitania.We do not know what the speakers of the language called it themselves, and its modern name ‘Lusitanian’ was proposed by A. Tovar 1 after the publication of the inscription from Cabeço das Fráguas, on the basis of its discovery in that ...
Lusitania ( / ˌluːsɪˈteɪniə /; Classical Latin: [luːsiːˈtaːnia]) 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 region after the Lusitanians, an Indo-European tribe ...
The Lusitanian is a Paleo-Hispanic language of the Indo-European family known from a handful of inscriptions and innumerable place names and theonyms in historic Lusitania, that is, the territory inhabited by the Lusitanians, which stretched across the center-south of the Duero and a good part of present-day Extremadura.
Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was an Indo-European Paleohispanic language. There has been support for either a connection with the ancient Italic languages or Celtic languages. It is known from only six sizeable inscriptions, dated from circa 1 CE, and numerous names of places and of gods .
The distribution of the Lusitanian language (2.4) can be also cstablished on the basis of the onomastical areas, distinguished by Jli.gell Untemann (see map 11). lt is possible that the Lusitaniaf, language (of a relaled dialcct) was used not oo1y in the main Rręa inhabited by the Lusitanians and the Vettones, but also in Gallaecia and Asturia ...
