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- The Iberian Language, from which Spanish is named, originated in Africa and was also used in the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Iberian language was the language of an indigenous western European people 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).
The Iberian language, a non-Indo-European tongue, continued to be spoken into early Roman times. Along the east coast it was written in Iberian script , a system of 28 syllabic and alphabetic characters, some derived from Greek and Phoenician systems but most of unknown origin.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
There are different theories about the origin of the Iberian language. According to the Catalan theory, the Iberian language originated in northern Catalonia , from where it expanded north and south.
Pre-Roman languages of Iberia circa 300 BC. The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman occupation and the spread of the Latin language. Aquitanian (probably closely related to or the same as Proto-Basque) Proto-Basque; Iberian; Tartessian; Indo-European languages. Celtic languages. Celtiberian; Gallaecian
Euskara, spoken in the autonomous communities of Navarre in northern Spain and the Basque Country across northern Spain and south-western France, is a mystery: it has no known origin or...
Feb 10, 2024 · The history of the Spanish language started with the Roman Empire’s conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which belongs to the Carthaginian state, in the 2nd century BC, and the spread of their native language, Latin, and the spoken dialect of Latin, Vulgar Latin, to the region.
…a genetic connection between Basque, Iberian (the long-extinct language of the ancient inscriptions of eastern Spain and of the Mediterranean coast of France), and the Afro-Asiatic languages. Despite amazing coincidences in phonology, Basque has so far contributed little to the understanding of the Iberian texts. This suggests that the similarity…
