The
Iberian language was the language of a people identified by
Greek and
Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the
Iberian Peninsula. The ancient
Iberians can be identified as a rather nebulous local culture between the 7th and 1st century BC. The Iberian language, like all the other
Paleohispanic languages except
Basque, became
extinct by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, after being gradually replaced by
Latin. Iberian is
unclassified: while the scripts used to write it have been deciphered to various extents, the language itself remains largely unknown.