Paleohispanic scripts

Paleohispanic scripts
Script type	Semisyllabary
Time period	c. 700–100 BC
Region	Paleohispanic languages according to inscriptions (except Aquitanian - according to anthroponyms and theonyms used in Latin inscriptions).
Languages	Aquitanian, Celtiberian, Gallaecian, Iberian, Lusitanian, Sorothaptic, Tartessian
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs[1] Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician script Paleohispanic scripts
Child systems	(Northern Palaeohispanic) Northeastern Iberian script Celtiberian script (Southern Palaeohispanic) Southeastern Iberian script Southwest script Espanca script
Sister systems	Greco-Iberian alphabet
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The Paleohispanic scripts are the writing systems created in the Iberian Peninsula before the Latin alphabet became the main script. Most of them are unusual in that they are semi-syllabic rather than purely alphabetic, despite having supposedly developed, in part, from the Phoenician alphabet.

Paleohispanic scripts are known to have been used from the 5th century BCE — possibly from the 7th century, in the opinion of some researchers — until the end of the 1st century BCE or the beginning of the 1st century CE, and were the main scripts used to write the Paleohispanic languages. Some researchers conclude that their origin may lie solely with the Phoenician alphabet, while others believe the Greek alphabet may also have had a role.