The first attested indigenous writing system in the Iberian Peninsula is the so-called “Southwestern script”. I argue that this system is of Phoenician inspiration and simultaneously offer an explicative model for its development as an alphabet, later on also the source of the Iberian semi-syllabary. This account, made primarily from a linguistic standpoint, ultimately intends to disclose orthographic rules of the script and phonological features of its underlying language.
Origin and Development of the Paleohispanic scripts: The Orthography and Phonology of the Southwestern alphabet / Miguel Valério. - In: REVISTA PORTUGUESA DE ARQUEOLOGIA. - ISSN 0874-2782. - STAMPA. - 11:2(2008), pp. 107-138.
Origin and Development of the Paleohispanic scripts: The Orthography and Phonology of the Southwestern alphabet
Miguel Valério
2008
Abstract
The first attested indigenous writing system in the Iberian Peninsula is the so-called “Southwestern script”. I argue that this system is of Phoenician inspiration and simultaneously offer an explicative model for its development as an alphabet, later on also the source of the Iberian semi-syllabary. This account, made primarily from a linguistic standpoint, ultimately intends to disclose orthographic rules of the script and phonological features of its underlying language.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.