Celtiberian language

Celtiberian
Northeastern Hispano-Celtic
Native to	Iberian Peninsula
Ethnicity	Celtiberians
Extinct	attested 2nd century BC – 1st century AD[1]
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Continental Celtic Hispano-Celtic Celtiberian
Writing system	Celtiberian script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xce
Linguist List	xce
Glottolog	celt1247
Celtiberian in the context of the Paleohispanic languages

Celtiberian or Northeastern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by the Celtiberians in an area of the Iberian Peninsula between the headwaters of the Douro, Tagus, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river. This language is directly attested in nearly 200 inscriptions dated from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD, mainly in Celtiberian script, a direct adaptation of the northeastern Iberian script, but also in the Latin alphabet. The longest extant Celtiberian inscriptions are those on three Botorrita plaques, bronze plaques from Botorrita near Zaragoza, dating to the early 1st century BC, labeled Botorrita I, III and IV (Botorrita II is in Latin).