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Type Alphabetic
Genealogy Proto-Sinaitic
Location Europe
Time 4th Century BCE to 1st Century CE
Direction Left to Right

As its name implies, the Iberian scripts were found mainly in Spain and Portugal, although some are found in southern France as well.

The Iberian family of scripts is consisted of two "styles", called Northeast and South. Structurally they are more or less the same, and the major difference between them is (a) geographical location, and (b) shape of the characters.

Both Iberian scripts contain monophonemic (that is, only one sound, sort of like alphabetic) signs as well as syllabic ones.


You can get a Windows True Type font for the Northeast Iberian script by following this link. Unfortunately it doesn't come with documentation on keyboard mapping, so you may find the following two keymap explanations that I've prepared useful:

  • celtiber.doc in MS-Word 6.0 format.
  • celtiber.txt in plain DOS text format.
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