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{{Short description|Languages of the peninsula in Southwest Europe}}'''Iberian languages''' is a generic term for the languages currently or formerly spoken in the [[Place:Iberian Peninsula|Iberian Peninsula]].

== Historic languages ==
=== Pre-Roman languages ===
[[File:Iberia_300BC-en.svg|thumb|400px|Pre-Roman languages of Iberia circa 300 BC]]

The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the [[Social:Romanization (cultural)|Roman occupation]] and the spread of the [[Social:Latin language|Latin language]].
* [[Social:Aquitanian language|Aquitanian]] (probably closely related to or the same as Proto-Basque)
* [[Social:Proto-Basque language|Proto-Basque]]
* [[Social:Iberian language|Iberian]]
* [[Social:Tartessian language|Tartessian]]
* [[Social:Indo-European languages|Indo-European languages]]
** Celtic languages
*** [[Social:Celtiberian language|Celtiberian]]
*** [[Social:Gallaecian language|Gallaecian]]
** [[Social:Lusitanian language|Lusitanian]] (disputed: either Italic, Celtic, Para-Celtic or other Indo-European)
** Sorothaptic
** Hellenic
*** [[Social:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]]
*[[Social:Afroasiatic languages|Afro-Asiatic languages]]
** Semitic languages
*** [[Social:Phoenician language|Phoenician]]
**** [[Social:Punic language|Punic]]

=== Medieval languages ===
The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
* [[Biography:Basque language|Medieval Basque]]
* [[Social:Indo-European languages|Indo-European languages]]
** Germanic languages
*** Buri
*** [[Social:Gothic language|Gothic]]
*** Suebian
*** [[Social:Vandalic language|Vandalic]]
**[[Social:Italic languages|Italic languages]]
*** [[Social:Latin|Latin]]
**** Astur-Leonese
**** [[Social:Galician-Portuguese|Galician-Portuguese]] (Old Portuguese)
**** Old Provençal (Old Occitan)
**** Old Castilian (Old Spanish)
**** [[Social:Mozarabic language|Mozarabic]]
**** [[Social:Navarro-Aragonese|Navarro-Aragonese]]
** Celtic languages
*** Brittonic
** [[Social:Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian languages]]
*** [[Social:Scythian languages|Scythian]]
**** Alanic
*** [[Social:Romani language|Romani]]
*[[Social:Afroasiatic languages|Afro-Asiatic languages]]
** Berber languages
**Semitic languages
*** Arabic languages
**** [[Social:Classical Arabic|Classical Arabic]]
***** [[Social:Andalusian Arabic|Andalusian Arabic]]
*** Jewish languages
**** [[Social:Medieval Hebrew|Medieval Hebrew]] (based on [[Social:Biblical Hebrew|Biblical Hebrew]])
***** Sephardi Hebrew
***** Judaeo-Romance languages (also classified as Italic/Latin languages)
****** [[Social:Judaeo-Aragonese|Judaeo-Aragonese]]
****** [[Social:Judaeo-Catalan|Judaeo-Catalan]]
****** [[Social:Judaeo-Portuguese|Judaeo-Portuguese]]
****** [[Social:Judaeo-Spanish|Judaeo-Spanish]]

== Modern languages ==
The following indigenous languages are currently spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.

===By linguistic group===
[[File:Linguistic_map_Southwestern_Europe.gif|thumb|400px|Languages of the Iberian Peninsula (simplified).]]
* [[Biography:Basque language|Basque]] ([[Social:Language isolate|isolate]])
**Batua
**Biscayan
**Gipuzkoan
**Upper Navarrese
**Lower Navarrese
**Lapurdian
**Souletin
* [[Social:Indo-European languages|Indo-European languages]]
** [[Social:Italic languages|Italic languages]]
*** Romance languages
**** [[Social:Aragonese language|Aragonese]]
**** Astur-Leonese
***** Asturian
***** Cantabrian (co-dialect with Spanish)
***** Leonese
***** Mirandese
***** Extremaduran (co-dialect with Spanish)
**** [[Social:Catalan language|Catalan]]
*****Eastern Catalan
******Northern Catalan
******Central Catalan
*****Western Catalan
******North-Western Catalan
******[[Social:Valencian|Valencian]]
******Ribagorçan (co-dialect with Aragonese)
*******Benasquese (co-dialect with Aragonese and Gascon Occitan)
**** [[Social:French language|French]]
****Portugalician
***** Galician
***** Eonavian 
***** Fala
***** [[Social:Portuguese language|Portuguese]]
****** Portuguese dialects
**** [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]] (or Castilian)
*****Spanish dialects and varieties
**Germanic languages
*** Anglic
****[[Social:English language|English]] (Gibraltar)
*Mixed languages
** Caló (Ibero-Romance Romani)
***Spanish Caló
***Catalan Caló
***Portuguese Calão
**Erromintxela (Basque Romani)
** Barranquenho
** Llanito
*[[Social:Sign language|Sign language]]s
**Spanish Sign Language
**Catalan/Valencian Sign Language
**Portuguese Sign Language
**French Sign Language

===By country===
*{{flagicon|Andorra}} [[Religion:Andorra|Andorra]]:
**[[Social:Catalan language|Catalan]] (official recognition)
**[[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]]
**[[Social:French language|French]]
*{{flagicon|France}} {{wipe|France}} (Pyrénées-Orientales):
**[[Social:French language|French]] (official recognition)
**French Sign Language (official recognition)
**[[Social:Catalan language|Catalan]] (official recognition)
**Occitan (not in the Iberian Peninsula, official recognition)
*{{flagicon|Gibraltar}}{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Place:Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] (UK dependency):
**[[Social:English language|English]] (official recognition)
**British Sign Language<ref>[http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=22992 Launch of British Sign Language in Gibraltar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429195707/http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=22992 |date=2012-04-29 }}.</ref>
**[[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]]
**Llanito
*{{flagicon|Portugal}} Portugal:
**[[Social:Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (official recognition)
***Barranquenho (spoken in the town of Barrancos, near Portuguese–Spanish border; recognized and protected)
**Portuguese Sign Language (official recognition)
**Mirandese (only spoken in a small eastern area of the Norte region, near Portuguese-Spanish border; official recognition)
*{{flagicon|Spain}} {{wipe|Spain}}:
**[[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]] (also called Castilian, official recognition)
**Spanish Sign Language (official recognition)
**[[Social:Catalan language|Catalan]] (official recognition)
**Valencian (official recognition)
**Catalan Sign Language (official recognition)
**Valencian Sign Language (official recognition)
**Galician (official recognition) and Fala
** Eonavian (also called Galician-asturian, official recognition) <ref>[http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1998/04/30/pdfs/A14573-14576.pdf Act 1/1998, March 23 of Principality of Asturias)]</ref>
**[[Biography:Basque language|Basque]] (official recognition)
**[[Social:Aragonese language|Aragonese]] (official recognition)
**Asturian (also called Bable, official recognition)
**Cantabrian
**Leonese (official recognition)
**Extremaduran
**Occitan (not in the Iberian Peninsula, locally called Aranese, official recognition)<ref>Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, article 6th and [http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2010/11/18/pdfs/BOE-A-2010-17710.pdf Act 35/2010, October 1st of Parliament of Catalonia]</ref>
**Moroccan Arabic (not in the Iberian Peninsula)
**Riffian Berber (not in the Iberian Peninsula)
====Usage of co-official languages in Spain====
[[File:Spain languages.svg|400px|thumb|Map of co-official languages in Spain]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=50% style=" text-align:center;clear:all; margin-left:20px; margin-right:3px; font-size:90%;"
|+Speakers of official languages in the Spanish autonomous communities<br/ >(as a % of each region's population)
|-bgcolor=#efefef class="sortable"
!width=35% |Autonomous community
!width=30% |Co-official languages
!width=5% |Co-official language speakers
|-
| Balearic Islands (2011)<ref name=Cat>{{cite web|url=http://www.demolinguistica.cat/arxiu/web/informe/informe2011.pdf |title=Informe sobre la situació de la llengua catalana |author= |date=2011 |publisher=Observatori de la llengua catalana |access-date=6 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123162105/http://www.demolinguistica.cat/arxiu/web/informe/informe2011.pdf |archive-date=23 January 2013 }}</ref>
| [[Social:Catalan language|Catalan]]
| 71.5%
|-
| Basque Country (2011)<ref name=Basque>{{cite web |url=http://www.eke.org/eu/kultura/euskara/soziolinguistika/inkesta-soziolinguistikoa-2011/2011ko-inkesta-soziolinguistikoa |title=V. Inkesta Soziolinguistikoa|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |publisher=Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza |accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref>
| [[Biography:Basque language|Basque]]
| 32.0%
|-
| Catalonia (2011)<ref name=Cat/>
| [[Social:Catalan language|Catalan]]
| 80.9%
|-
| Galicia (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.observatoriodalinguagalega.org/files/OLG_informe_cidadania.pdf|title=Situación da lingua galega na sociedade. Observación no ámbito da cidadanía 2007|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=|publisher=Observatorio da Lingua Galega/Xunta de Galicia|accessdate=2 September 2016|archive-date=13 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913110846/http://www.observatoriodalinguagalega.org/files/OLG_informe_cidadania.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| Galician
| 89.3%
|-
| Navarre (2011)<ref name=Basque/>
| [[Biography:Basque language|Basque]]
| 11.7%
|-
| Valencian Community (2011)<ref name=Cat/>
| Valencian
| 58.4%
|-
| Asturias<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asturies.com/espaciuytiempu/sociollinguistica |title=Sociollingüística |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |publisher=Espaciu y Tiempu de la llingua asturiana |accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref>
| Asturian language
| 42.0%
|}

== See also ==
* Languages of Andorra
* [[Social:Languages of Spain|Languages of Spain]]
* Languages of France
* [[Social:Languages of Portugal|Languages of Portugal]]
* Languages of Gibraltar
* Iberian Romance languages
*Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
* Balearic Catalan

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040611215344/http://www.arqueotavira.com/Mapas/Iberia/Populi.htm Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)]
*[http://www.proel.org/lenguas2.html Detailed linguistic map of the Iberian Peninsula]
*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists_for_Iberian_languages Swadesh lists of Iberian languages basic words] (from Wiktionary's [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists Swadesh list appendix])

==References==
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