Editing Celtiberian language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Celtic language of Iberia}}
{{Infobox language
  |name=Celtiberian
  |altname=Northeastern Hispano-Celtic
  |states=[[Iberian Peninsula]]
  |ethnicity = [[Celtiberians]]
  |extinct=attested 2nd century BC – 1st century AD
  |ref = <ref>{{cite book |author1=Bernd Vath |author2=Sabine Ziegler |year=2017 |editor1=Jared Klein |editor2=Brian Joseph |editor3=Matthias Fritz |title=Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics |chapter=The documentation of Celtic |pages=1168–1188 |doi=10.1515/9783110523874-022}}</ref>
  |familycolor=Indo-European
  |fam2=[[Celtic languages|Celtic]]
  |fam3=[[Continental Celtic languages|Continental Celtic]]
  |fam4=[[Hispano-Celtic languages|Hispano-Celtic]]
  |script=[[Celtiberian script]]
  |iso3=xce
  |linglist=xce
  |glotto=celt1247
|glottorefname=Celtiberian
  |map=Mapa llengües paleohispàniques-ang.jpg
  |mapcaption={{Legend|cyan|Celtiberian in the context of the [[Paleohispanic languages]]}}
}}

'''Celtiberian''' or '''Northeastern Hispano-Celtic''' is an [[extinct language|extinct]] [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] language of the [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] branch spoken by the [[Celtiberians]] in an area of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] between the headwaters of the [[Douro]], [[Tagus]], [[Júcar]] and [[Turia (river)|Turia]] rivers and the [[Ebro]] river. This language is directly attested in nearly 200 inscriptions dated from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD, mainly in [[Celtiberian script]], a direct adaptation of the [[northeastern Iberian script]], but also in the [[Latin alphabet]]. The longest extant Celtiberian inscriptions are those on three [[Botorrita plaque]]s, [[bronze]] plaques from [[Botorrita]] near [[Zaragoza]], dating to the early 1st century BC, labeled Botorrita I, III and IV (Botorrita II is in [[Latin]]). Shorter and more fragmentary is the [[Novallas bronze tablet]].<ref>Francisco Beltrán Lloris , Carlos Jordán Cólera , Borja Díaz Ariño1, and Ignacio Simón Cornago. Journal of Roman Archaeology 34 (2021), 713–733 doi:10.1017/S1047759421000635</ref>