13 Facts About Iberian language

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.

Iberian language inscriptions are found along the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian language Peninsula, reaching up to the river Herault in the south of France.

Some scholars, such as Velaza, Iberian could have been the language spoken by the autochthonous population of these territories, while for others, such as De Hoz, Iberian could have been more of a lingua franca.

The northeastern Iberian language inscriptions have been found mainly in the northeastern quadrant of the Iberian language Peninsula: chiefly on the coast from Languedoc-Roussillon to Alicante, but with a deep penetration into the Ebro valley.

Southeastern Iberian language script is a semi-syllabary too, but it is more similar to the Tartessian script than to the northeastern Iberian language script.

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The southeastern Iberian language inscriptions have been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of the Iberian language Peninsula: eastern Andalusia, Murcia, Albacete, Alicante and Valencia.

The inscriptions that use the Greco-Iberian language alphabet have been found mainly in Alicante and Murcia.

The investigation of the Iberian language is past its initial phase of transcription and compiling of material, and is currently in the phase of identifying grammatical elements in the texts.

Iberian language names are formed mainly by two interchangeable elements, each usually formed of two syllables, which are written together.

However, since the meaning of most Iberian language words remains opaque to date, the connection remains speculative except in a very small number of cases.

Many experts on Iberian suspect that there is a relationship of some sort between Iberian and Aquitanian, a precursor of the Basque language.

Eduardo Orduna insists that the Iberian language elements proposed as numerals are not only similar to the Basque numerals, but combine as numerals and appear in contexts where numerals are expected.

Iberian language observes Lakarra not dispute these arguments [neither does de Hoz ].