Aquitaine language

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The Aquitaine language was spoken on both sides of the western Pyrenees in the former Aquitaine region before the Roman conquest of this area. North of the Pyrenees, the Aquitaine-language area extended roughly as far as the Garonne , south of the Pyrenees it bordered the Basque-language area to the east . The Aquitaine language probably died out in the early Middle Ages .

Archaeological, toponomastic, and historical sources indicate that Aquitaine was a language or group of languages closely related to Basque . The Aquitaine language has been passed down almost exclusively in the form of names. The most important source is a series of Latin consecration and grave inscriptions that contain around 400 names of persons and around 70 other gods in Aquitanian language.

literature

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  • Gorrochategui, Joaquín The Basque Language and its Neighbors in Antiquity , Towards a History of the Basque Language . 1995. pp. 31-63.
  • Michelena, Luis: De onomástica aquitana , Pirineos . 1954. 10, pp. 409-58.
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  • Rodríguez Ramos, Jesús: La hipótesis del vascoiberismo desde el punto de vista de la epigrafía íbera , Fontes Linguae Vasconum .2002. 90, pp. 197-219.
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