comment about pre-historic Iberia
After taking another peek at my "Empires of the Word" book, I see I may have gotten something backward. The author is offering a second hypothesis on the origin of Celt-Iberian. It may have been a result of infusion of a Atlantic Celt lingua franca from the coastal north, including the British Isles. The Punic trade routes along the coast tied those areas together.
Also, he referred to the indigenous Iberian language, which sounds like a non-Indoeuropean language. Another apparently non-Indoeuropean language was Ligurian; judging by another map.
Lusitanian used "P", which the neighboring Celts did not.
After taking another peek at my "Empires of the Word" book, I see I may have gotten something backward. The author is offering a second hypothesis on the origin of Celt-Iberian. It may have been a result of infusion of a Atlantic Celt lingua franca from the coastal north, including the British Isles. The Punic trade routes along the coast tied those areas together.
Also, he referred to the indigenous Iberian language, which sounds like a non-Indoeuropean language. Another apparently non-Indoeuropean language was Ligurian; judging by another map.
Lusitanian used "P", which the neighboring Celts did not.
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