Paleohispanic scripts

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Paleohispanic scripts are a group of ancient writing systems used in the Iberian Peninsula before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, employed by various pre-Roman peoples to record their languages.

All labels observed (8)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient writing system group
writing system
associatedWith pre-Roman Iberian cultures
culturalContext pre-Roman Iberia
fieldOfStudy epigraphy
historical linguistics
paleography
geographicRegion central Iberian Peninsula
eastern Iberian Peninsula
southeastern Iberian Peninsula
linked to: southeastern Spain

southwestern Iberian Peninsula
includes Celtiberian script
Espanca script
Greco-Iberian alphabet
Northeastern Iberian script
Southeastern Iberian script
Southwestern script
Tartessian script
influencedBy Greek alphabet
Northwest Semitic scripts
Phoenician alphabet
inscriptionMedium ceramic
metal
stone
languageFamilyContext Indo-European languages
non-Indo-European languages
materialForm inscriptions
notableCorpus Botorrita inscriptions
Iberian coin legends
Tartessian stelae
replacedBy Latin alphabet
scriptFamily Old Italic–related scripts
Semitic-derived scripts
scriptStatus deciphered in part
not fully understood
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
early 1st millennium CE
usedBefore Latin alphabet
usedBy pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
usedIn Iberian Peninsula
usedToWrite Celtiberian language
linked to: Celtiberian

Iberian language
Lusitanian language
Paleohispanic languages
Tartessian language
writingDirection left-to-right
right-to-left
writingType alphabet
semi-syllabary

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Celtiberia writingSystem Paleohispanic scripts
Botorrita inscriptions writingSystem Celtiberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Botorrita inscriptions scriptType Paleohispanic script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Iberians usedWritingSystem Iberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Belli writingSystem Celtiberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Cabezo de las Minas knownFor Celtiberian inscriptions
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Contrebia Belaisca hasWritingSystem Celtiberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Paleohispanic scripts includes Northeastern Iberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Paleohispanic scripts includes Southeastern Iberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Paleohispanic scripts includes Tartessian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Paleohispanic scripts includes Celtiberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Botorrita hasWritingSystemFinds Celtiberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts
Edetania writingSystem Iberian script
linked to: Paleohispanic scripts