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There is substantial graphic variation in the Iberian glyphs, and over the past several decades many scholars have come to believe that, at least in northeastern Iberian script (and recently also in Celtiberian script) some of this variation is meaningful. It appears that the original simple letters
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for convenience and based on broad similarities, but their relationships to each other and to neighboring contemporaneous scripts, such as Greco-Iberian, are not firmly established. It is generally accepted that they were derived at least partly from the
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the decipherment of the southeastern Iberian script is not still closed, because there are a significant group of signs without consensus value. The southeastern inscriptions have been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of Iberia: Eastern
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were assigned specifically to the voiced consonants /b/, /d/, /g/, whereas the voiceless consonants /t/ and /k/ were derived from /d/ and /g/ syllables with the addition of a stroke. (This is the so-called
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The southeastern Iberian script is poorly attested, and there are some gaps in the records: There are no positively identified symbols for /gu/, /do/, and /m/, for example. Unlike the
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like /l/, /m/, and vowels) were written with distinct letters, as in Phoenician (or in Greek in the case of the vowels), but the non-continuants (the
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model: see the image at right). If correct, this innovation would parallel the creation of the Latin letter G from C by the addition of a stroke.
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In the sense that the Iberian scripts are the scripts created for the Iberians to represent the Iberian language, the
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Possible values of the southeastern Iberian signary (Correa 2004). In red are the most debatable signs.
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Novetats sobre el sistema dual de diferenciaciĂł grĂ fica de les oclusives sordes i sonores
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THE OLDEST WESTERN COMMERCIAL DATABASE: THE LEAD PLAQUE OF LA BASTIDA DE LES ALCUSES
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The proposed 'dual' variant of northeastern Iberian (Based on Ferrer i Jané 2005)
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glyphs that represented both consonant and vowel together, as with Japanese
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Los primeros sistemas de escritura en la Península Ibérica (Course program)
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There are two main graphic as well as geographic variants in the family:
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Anderson, James M. (1988) Ancient Languages of the Hispanic Peninsula.
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IV Die tartessischen, keltiberischen und lusitanischen Inschriften
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Ferrer, J., Moncunill, N., Velaza, J., & Anderson, D. (2017).
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Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BCE)
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The southeastern script was written right to left, as was the
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Dual variant (4th century BCE and 3rd century BCE) (tentative)
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The northeastern Iberian script is often known simply as the
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Iberian scripts in the context of Paleohispanic scripts
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Non-dual variant (2nd century BCE and 1st century BCE)
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Index

Iberian alphabet


Paleohispanic languages
Iberian language
Tartessian language
Celtiberian language
Lusitanian language
Pyrenees
Aquitanian language



Ullastret



La Bastida de les Alcusses
Moixent


Alcoi
Paleohispanic scripts
Iberian language
semi-syllabic
alphabetic
Northeastern Iberian script
Southeastern Iberian script
Greco-Iberian alphabet
Greek alphabet

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