Tartessian language

Tartessian is an extinct <a href="/facts/Paleo-Hispanic_languages/9baNqxdc">Paleo-Hispanic language</a> found in the <a href="/facts/Southwest_Paleohispanic_script/ILW2hJQK">Southwestern inscriptions</a> of the <a href="/facts/Iberian_Peninsula/ztFXI8zt">Iberian Peninsula</a>, mainly located in the south of <a href="/facts/Portugal/lYzwDQ63">Portugal</a> (<a href="/facts/Algarve/Yr8ovvYS">Algarve</a> and southern <a href="/facts/Alentejo/73bIEXjD">Alentejo</a>), and the southwest of <a href="/facts/Spain/bIyrB8EY">Spain</a> (south of <a href="/facts/Extremadura/RMkwR0bW">Extremadura</a> and western <a href="/facts/Andalusia/nkw5oWrL">Andalusia</a>). There are 95 such inscriptions; the longest has 82 readable signs. Around one third of them were found in Early <a href="/facts/Iron_Age/mpQYShI0">Iron Age</a> necropolises or other Iron Age burial sites associated with rich complex burials. It is usual to date them to the 7th century BC and to consider the southwestern script to be the most ancient <a href="/facts/Paleohispanic_scripts/aXqoBrvv">Paleo-Hispanic script</a>, with characters most closely resembling specific <a href="/facts/Phoenician_alphabet/Vr4smuYg">Phoenician letter forms</a> found in inscriptions dated to c. 825 BC. Five of the inscriptions occur on <a href="/facts/Stele/TECCpFvv">stelae</a> that have been interpreted as Late <a href="/facts/Bronze_Age/c09qWcTt">Bronze Age</a> carved warrior gear from the <a href="/facts/Urnfield_culture/BUxYt9Sw">Urnfield culture</a>.

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Tartessian language