Editing Iberian language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct language of an indigenous western European people}}
{{distinguish|Iberian languages|Iberian Romance languages}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Iberian
| familycolor      = Unclassified
| family           = [[Unclassified language|unclassified]]
| states           = Modern [[Spain]] and [[France]]
| region           = Mediterranean coast of the [[Iberian Peninsula]]
| extinct          = 1st century AD<ref>{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xib |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150117205227/http://multitree.org/codes/xib |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 January 2015 |title=Iberian |access-date=2024-01-30 }}</ref>
| script           = [[Iberian scripts]] 
| iso3             = xib
| linglist         = xib
| glotto           = iber1250
| glottorefname    = Iberian
| notice           = IPA
}}

The '''Iberian language''' was the language of an indigenous western European people identified by [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[ancient Rome|Roman]] sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in the pre-[[Migration Era]] (before about AD&nbsp;375). An ancient [[Iberians|Iberian culture]] can be identified as existing between the 7th and 1st centuries BC, at least.

Iberian, like all the other [[Paleohispanic languages]] except [[Basque language|Basque]], was [[extinct language|extinct]] by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD. It had been replaced gradually by [[Latin]], following the [[Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula]].

The Iberian language is [[unclassified language|unclassified]]: while the scripts used to write it have been deciphered to various extents, the language itself remains largely unknown. Links with other languages have been suggested, especially the [[Basque language]], based largely on the observed similarities between the [[numeral system|numerical systems]] of the two. In contrast, the [[Punic language]] of [[Carthaginian Iberia|Carthaginian]] settlers was [[Semitic languages|Semitic]], while [[Indo-European languages]] of the peninsula during the [[Iron Age]] include the now extinct [[Celtiberian language|Celtiberian]] and [[Lusitanian language]]s, [[Ionic Greek]], and [[History of Latin|Latin]], which formed the basis for modern [[Iberian Romance languages]], but none of these were related to the Iberian language.