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The '''Proto-Iberian language''' is the ancestor [[w:Language|language]] (though not really proto-) of the '''Iberian''' branch of the [[w:Indo-European languages|Indo-European languages]]. The Proto-Iberian language | The '''Proto-Iberian language''' is the ancestor [[w:Language|language]] (though not really proto-) of the '''Iberian''' branch of the [[w:Indo-European languages|Indo-European languages]]. The Proto-Iberian language is associated with the 1200 BCE to 100 BC timestamp. although its division from Proto-Indo-European occured much earlier. | ||
The Iberians as an ethnicity are known to have appeared as a very small group of tribes in East Iberia that later united and expanded to the entirety of Iberia (that would later result into two distinct languages) within the centuries. Its vocabulary is almost entirely derived from Proto-Indo-European with exceptions of late borrowings from [[w:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]] and, sometimes, [[w:Latin|Latin]]. | The Iberians as an ethnicity are known to have appeared as a very small group of tribes in East Iberia that later united and expanded to the entirety of Iberia (that would later result into two distinct languages) within the centuries. Its vocabulary is almost entirely derived from Proto-Indo-European with exceptions of late borrowings from [[w:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]] and, sometimes, [[w:Latin|Latin]]. |
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