There have been many languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.
Historic languages Pre-Roman languages
The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman occupation and the spread of the Latin language. Aquitanian (probably closely related to or the same as Proto-Basque) Proto-Basque Iberian Tartessian Indo-European languages Celtic languages Celtiberian Gallaecian Lusitanian (disputed: either Italic, Celtic, Para-Celtic or other Indo-European) Sorothaptic Hellenic Ancient Greek Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic languages Phoenician Punic
Medieval languages The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Medieval Basque Indo-European languages Germanic languages Buri Gothic Suebian Vandalic Italic languages Latin Astur-Leonese Galician-Portuguese (Old Galician) Old Catalan Old Provençal (Old Occitan) Old Castilian (Old Spanish) Mozarabic Navarro-Aragonese Judaeo-Romance languages Judaeo-Aragonese Judaeo-Catalan Judaeo-Portuguese Judaeo-Spanish Celtic languages Brittonic Indo-Iranian languages Scythian Alanic Romani Afro-Asiatic languages Berber languages Semitic languages Arabic languages Classical Arabic Andalusian Arabic Medieval Hebrew (a written language based on Biblical Hebrew) Sephardi Hebrew
Modern languages The following indigenous languages are currently spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.
By linguistic group
Basque (isolate) Batua Biscayan Gipuzkoan Upper Navarrese Lower Navarrese Lapurdian Souletin Indo-European languages Italic languages Romance languages Aragonese Astur-Leonese Asturian Cantabrian (co-dialect with Spanish) Leonese Mirandese Extremaduran (co-dialect with Spanish) Catalan Eastern Catalan Northern Catalan Central Catalan Western Catalan North-Western Catalan Valencian Ribagorçan (co-dialect with Aragonese) Benasquese (co-dialect with Aragonese and Gascon Occitan) French Galician-Portuguese 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 French Sign Language
By country Andorra: Catalan (official recognition) Spanish French France (Pyrénées-Orientales): French (official recognition) French Sign Language (official recognition) Catalan (official recognition) Occitan (not in the Iberian Peninsula, official recognition) Gibraltar (UK dependency): English (official recognition) British Sign LanguageLaunch of British Sign Language in Gibraltar . Spanish Llanito Portugal: Portuguese (official recognition) Portuguese Sign Language (official recognition) Mirandese (only spoken in a small eastern area of the Norte region, near Portuguese-Spanish border; official recognition) Barranquenho (spoken in the town of Barrancos, near Portuguese–Spanish border; recognized and protected) Minderico (only spoken in the town of Minde) Spain: Spanish (also called Castilian, official recognition) Spanish Sign Language (official recognition) Catalan (official recognition; called Valencian in the Valencian Community). Catalan Sign Language (official recognition) Valencian Sign Language (official recognition) Galician (official recognition) and Fala Eonavian (also called Galician-asturian, official recognition) Act 1/1998, March 23 of Principality of Asturias) Basque (official recognition) 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)Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, article 6th and Act 35/2010, October 1st of Parliament of Catalonia Moroccan Arabic (not in the Iberian Peninsula) Riffian Berber (not in the Iberian Peninsula) Usage of co-official languages in Spain
+Speakers of official languages in the Spanish autonomous communities<br/ >(as a % of each region's population)Autonomous communityCo-official languagesCo-official language speakers Balearic Islands (2011) Catalan 71.5% Basque Country (2011) Basque 32.0% Catalonia (2011) Catalan 80.9% Galicia (2007) Galician 89.3% Navarre (2011) Basque 11.7% Valencian Community (2011) Valencian 58.4% Asturias Asturian language 42.0%
See also Languages of Andorra Languages of Spain Languages of France Languages of Portugal Languages of Gibraltar Iberian Romance languages Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula Balearic Catalan
External links 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)
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