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Preferred term

xlsLusitanian  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was a paleohispanic language that apparently belonged to the Indo-European family. Its relationship to the Celtic languages of the Iberian Peninsula, either as a member, a cousin (in a branch termed "Para-Celtic"), or as a different branch of Indo-European, is debated. , inscriptions, dated from ca. 1 CE, and numerous names of places (toponyms) and of gods (theonyms). The language was spoken in the territory inhabited by Lusitanian tribes, from Douro to the Tagus rivers, territory that nowadays belongs mainly to Portugal, but also to Spain.

Entry terms

  • Lusitanian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xls

In other languages

  • Lusitaniera

    Basque

  • Lusità

    Catalan

  • Finnish

  • Lusitain

    French

  • Lingua lusitana

    Galician

  • Lusitanische Sprache

    German

  • Luzitán nyelv

    Hungarian

  • Lingua lusitana

    Italian

  • Луситански јазик

    Macedonian

  • Língua lusitana

    Portuguese

  • Лузитанский язык

    Russian

  • Idioma lusitano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xls

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