Languages Of Iberia

Iberian languages is a generic term for the languages currently or formerly spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.

Historic languages

Main pages: Social:Paleohispanic languages and Social:Paleohispanic scripts

Pre-Roman languages of Iberia circa 300 BC

The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman occupation and the spread of the Latin language.

The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

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

Languages of the Iberian Peninsula (simplified).

Basque (isolate)
- Batua
- Biscayan
- Gipuzkoan
- Upper Navarrese
- Lower Navarrese
- Lapurdian
- Souletin
Indo-European languages
- Italic languages
  - Romance languages
    - Aragonese
    - Aranese (dialect of Gascon Occitan)
    - Astur-Leonese
      - Asturian
      - Cantabrian (co-dialect with Spanish)
      - Leonese
      - Mirandese
      - Extremaduran (co-dialect with Spanish)
    - Catalan
      - Eastern Catalan
        Northern Catalan
        
        Central Catalan
        
        Balearic
      - Western Catalan
        North-Western Catalan
        
        Valencian
        
        Ribagorçan (co-dialect with Aragonese)
        Benasquese (co-dialect with Aragonese and Gascon Occitan)
    - Portugalician
      - Galician
      - Eonavian
      - Fala
      - Portuguese
        Portuguese dialects
    - Spanish (or Castilian)
      - Spanish dialects and varieties
- Germanic languages
  - Anglic
    - English (Gibraltar)
Mixed languages
- Caló (Ibero-Romance Romani)
  - Spanish Caló
  - Catalan Caló
  - Portuguese Calão
- Erromintxela (Basque Romani)
- Barranquenho
- Llanito
Sign languages
- Spanish Sign Language
- Catalan/Valencian Sign Language
- Portuguese Sign Language

Andorra:
- Catalan (official recognition)
- Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
Gibraltar (UK dependency):
- English (official recognition)
- British Sign Language^[1]
- Spanish
- Llanito
Portugal:
- Portuguese (official recognition)
  - Barranquenho (spoken in the town of Barrancos, near Portuguese–Spanish border)
- Portuguese Sign Language (official recognition)
- Mirandese (only spoken in a small eastern area of the Norte region, near Portuguese-Spanish border; official recognition)
Spain :
- Spanish (also called Castilian, official recognition)
- Spanish Sign Language (official recognition)
- Catalan (called Valencian in the Valencian Community, official recognition)
- Catalan/Valencian Sign Language (official recognition)
- Galician (official recognition) and Fala
- Eonavian (also called Galician-asturian, official recognition) ^[2]
- Basque (official recognition)
- Aragonese (official recognition)
- Occitan (locally called Aranese, official recognition)^[3]
- Asturian (also called Bable, official recognition)
- Cantabrian
- Leonese (official recognition)
- Extremaduran

Map of co-official languages in Spain

Speakers of official languages in the Spanish autonomous communities
(as a % of each region's population)
Autonomous community	Co-official languages	Co-official language speakers
Balearic Islands (2011)^[4]	Catalan	71.5%
Basque Country (2011)^[5]	Basque	32.0%
Catalonia (2011)^[4]	Catalan	80.9%
Galicia (2007)^[6]	Galician	89.3%
Navarre (2011)^[5]	Basque	11.7%
Valencian Community (2011)^[4]	Valencian (Catalan)	58.4%
Asturias^[7]	Asturian language	42.0%

Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
Detailed linguistic map of the Iberian Peninsula
Swadesh lists of Iberian languages basic words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)

↑ Launch of British Sign Language in Gibraltar .
↑ Act 1/1998, March 23 of Principality of Asturias)
↑ Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, article 6th and Act 35/2010, October 1st of Parliament of Catalonia
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "Informe sobre la situació de la llengua catalana". Observatori de la llengua catalana. 2011. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130123162105/http://www.demolinguistica.cat/arxiu/web/informe/informe2011.pdf. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "V. Inkesta Soziolinguistikoa". Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza. http://www.eke.org/eu/kultura/euskara/soziolinguistika/inkesta-soziolinguistikoa-2011/2011ko-inkesta-soziolinguistikoa. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
↑ "Situación da lingua galega na sociedade. Observación no ámbito da cidadanía 2007". Observatorio da Lingua Galega/Xunta de Galicia. http://www.observatoriodalinguagalega.org/files/OLG_informe_cidadania.pdf. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
↑ "Sociollingüística". Espaciu y Tiempu de la llingua asturiana. http://www.asturies.com/espaciuytiempu/sociollinguistica. Retrieved 6 January 2013.

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