The South-West of Ancient Hispania in its Linguistic and Epigraphic Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22311671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Luis García Alonso (0000-0001-5009-1834, Universidad de Salamanca, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-84 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Celtic Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-1377 • E-ISSN: 2058-5063 |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16922/jcl.24.3 |
| OpenAlex | W4321120369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper provides a linguistic and epigraphic context to the so-called 'Tartessian' or 'Southwestern' inscriptions from ancient Hispania. Starting from the general linguistic landscape in the Iberian Peninsula in pre-Roman and Roman times, with an overview of Lusitanian, in the vicinity of these texts, and of the relatively well-known Celtiberian and pre-Indo-European languages (Iberian and Vasconic-Aquitanian), a description of the Palaeo-Hispanic variety of the writing system used in these texts is offered. In the final section, analysing in detail some of the arguments to defend the Celticity of these inscriptions, a conclusion is reached that the large funerary stone stelae from Southern Portugal are not written in Celtic or any other Indo-European language, but rather in a largely unknown non-Indo-European agglutinative language
Agglutinative language · Ancient history · Archaeology · Celtic languages · Geography · Linguistics · Peninsula · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Classics · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |