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Palaeohispanic writing systems: classification, origin, and development
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Palaeohispanic languages were essentially written by means of different epichoric
writing systems, which, in view of some of their common characteristic features, are
believed to have belonged to the same family. Nevertheless, as will be summarized in
the following sections, the stemma to represent their interrelationship is still under
debate, as is the phonetic value of some of the characters.
On the other hand, in certain more residual cases, the Latin and even the Greek alphabet
were also directly adopted: Latin is actually the only writing system used in the few
extant Lusitanian inscriptions; it is also found in a limited number of Celtiberian texts
and in a few Iberian inscriptions. Even rarer is the use of Greek, restricted to only three
Iberian graffiti. However, a local variant of the Greek alphabet, labelled as Graeco-
Iberian, was more widely used to write the Iberian language. There are also some mint
names in the province of Cádiz on coins dating to the 2nd and 1st century BCE that in the
former communis opinio used to be considered to have been written in a local script, the
Libyo-Phoenician alphabet, although more recent studies consider this just a local
variant of the Punic alphabet...
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FERRER I JANÉ, Joan and MONCUNILL MARTÍ, Noemí. Palaeohispanic writing systems: classification, origin, and development. Capítol 4 del llibre: Alejandro G. Sinner and Javier Velaza. eds.. Vol. Oxford: Oxford University Press, num. ISBN: 9780198790822. [consulted: 13 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/145739