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The languages of the pre-roman Iberian peninsula can be classified in two groups according to their external cultural relations:
1) the languages of the historically documented colonisations: Phoenician, Punic and Greek;
2) the "native" languages.

In turn, these native languages can be classified according to their genetical family relations in three groups:
1) Indo-European: the Celtiberian, a Celtic language; and the Lusitanian, a scarcely attested language regarded as Celtic by some investigators, but that preserves the /p/ from Proto-Indo-European and hence probably not Celtic;
2) Iberian, a clearly distinguishable and easily identificable language (or languages?) but very poorly known, probably related to Basque and ancient Aquitanian;
3) Unclassified languages: the only attested enough for an identification is the usually called Tartessian, more correctly called Sudlusitanian (or South-Lusitanian, though it's not related to Lusitanian).


http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ib1_en.htm

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* Julia Manach, May 12, 2004 - 10:47

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Again with the Lusitani (* Cyhiraeth Volcae, Nov 18, 2004 - 02:40 )
Sudlusitanian (* PelayodAsturies Arevaci, Nov 12, 2004 - 16:43 )
The Lusitanian language... (* Cyhiraeth Volcae, Nov 11, 2004 - 11:49 )
Information about ancient languages (* PelayodAsturies Arevaci, Nov 11, 2004 - 10:32 )
Interesting ! (* Cyhiraeth Volcae, Nov 10, 2004 - 12:00 )
Written Lusitanian language (* PelayodAsturies Arevaci, Nov 9, 2004 - 14:31 )
Lusitanian language (* Calpurnia Caesar, Nov 4, 2004 - 11:55 )
Lusitani (* PelayodAsturies Arevaci, Nov 4, 2004 - 11:29 )
I have just some questions (* Cyhiraeth Volcae, Nov 2, 2004 - 14:26 )
Lusitanian language (* PelayodAsturies Arevaci, Nov 1, 2004 - 10:39 )
La lengua celtibérica/o celtibérico (* Julia Manach, May 12, 2004 - 10:50 )


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