CELTIBERIAN SCRIPT


The 'Celtiberian script' was used to write the Celtiberian language, an extinct Continental Celtic language.
The script has been seen in inscriptions dated between the 6th and 1st centuries B.C. It was based on the Iberian scripts that the Celts encountered among the native people when they came into Iberia from Gaul. Because the existing Iberian language did not distinguish between voiced and unvoiced consonants, the resulting script was unable to fully express the Celtiberian language.
The largest collection of Celtiberian script known is on a set of bronze plaques found at Botorrita, Spain, and dated to the 2nd century BC.


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The letters of the Celtiberian script

A transcription of a Botorrita plaque

Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)

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