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Paleohispanic languages
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<p>The Paleo-Hispanic or Paleo-Iberian languages are the languages of the <a href="/facts/Pre-Roman_peoples_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula/6g8u1kLf">Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula</a>, excluding languages of foreign colonies, such as <a href="/facts/Ancient_Greek/LIK7NlUh">Greek</a> in <a href="/facts/Emp%25C3%25BAries/mMTaYnT1">Emporion</a> and <a href="/facts/Phoenician_language/KFcxz467">Phoenician</a> in <a href="/facts/Cartagena%2c_Spain/mTGXjjhW">Qart Hadast</a>. After the <a href="/facts/Roman_conquest_of_Hispania/Df7r2KUl">Roman conquest of Hispania</a> the Paleohispanic languages, with the exception of <a href="/facts/Proto-Basque_language/7c0mRb74">Proto-Basque</a>, were replaced by <a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a>, the ancestor of the modern <a href="/facts/Iberian_Romance_languages/QWQ7RXwo">Iberian Romance languages</a>. </p>