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Ancient Iberian–another Indo-European language?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

James M. Anderson
James M. Anderson*
Affiliation:
The University of Calgary
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The Hispanic Peninsula immediately prior to Romanization was occupied by numerous tribes or clans representing diverse Indo-European and non-Indo-European populations. Basques resided in the north, Celts in the northwest and central regions, Tartessians in the south, Bastetanians in the southeast and Iberians in the east and northeast.

The region of the Iberians, extending from a little north of the Pyrenees south to Alicante and beyond, has consistently yielded a number of inscriptions in a language thus far unrelated to the other known languages of the Peninsula, or to the undeciphered languages underlying the inscriptions of the south. Iberian, a geographical and collective term, refers to the several cultures and dialects which appear connected in unknown degrees to two major groups: the Edetanos of the Valencian plains and the related Ilergetes who dwelt further north in Catalufña.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1977 , pp. 29 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1977

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Footnotes

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This work was supported in part by the Canada Council whose assistance enabled me to seek out and examine a number of Mediterranean inscriptions, especially in Spain and Portugal.

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