(also '''Hispano-Celtic''') is an ''pis, pid'' ("who, what?") with
Latin ''quis, quid''. Celtiberian and Gaulish are usually grouped together as the
Continental Celtic Languages , but this grouping too is paraphyletic: no evidence suggests the two shared any common innovation separately from Insular Celtic.
The longest extant Celtiberian inscriptions are those on three
Botorrita Plaque s,
Bronze plaques from
Botorrita near
Saragossa , dating to the early
1st Century BC , labelled Botorrita I, III and IV (Botorrita II is in the
Latin Language ).
Celtiberian exhibits a fully inflected relative pronoun ''ios'', not preserved in other Celtic dialects, and the
Particle s ''kue'' "and", ''nekue'' "nor", ''ve'' "or". Like in
Welsh , there is an ''s''-
Subjunctive , ''gabiseti'' "he shall take" (Old Irish ''gabid''), ''robiseti'', ''auseti''. Compare
Umbrian ''ferest'' "he shall make".
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- Hoz, Javier de. (1996). ''The Botorrita first text. Its epigraphical background''; in: ''Die größeren altkeltischen Sprachdenkmäler.'' Akten des Kolloquiums Innsbruck 29. April - 3. Mai 1993, ed. W. Meid and P. Anreiter, 124–145, Innsbruck.
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- Meid, Wolfgang. (1994). ''Celtiberian Inscriptions'', Archaeolingua, edd. S. Bökönyi and W. Meid, Series Minor, 5, 12–13. Budapest.
