Editing Iberian scripts (section)

==Typology==
Excepting the [[Greco-Iberian alphabet]], the Iberian scripts are typologically unusual, in that they were partially [[alphabetic]] and partially [[syllabary|syllabic]]: Continuants ([[fricative consonant|fricative]] sounds like /s/ and [[sonorant]]s 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 [[stop consonant|stops]] /b/, /d/, /t/, /g/, and /k/) were written with ''syllabic'' glyphs that represented both consonant and vowel together, as with Japanese [[kana]]. That is, in written Iberian, ''ga'' displayed no resemblance to ''ge,'' and ''bi'' had no connection to ''bo.'' This possibly unique writing system is called a "[[semi-syllabary]]".

The southeastern script was written right to left, as was the [[Phoenician alphabet]], whereas the northeastern script reversed this to left to right, as in the [[Greek alphabet]].