Lusitanian is an extinct Indo-European Paleohispanic language known from only six sizeable inscriptions, dated to roughly the first century AD, along with numerous place names and names of gods. It was spoken in the territory between the Douro and Tagus rivers, in what is now central Portugal and western Spain, and scholars have debated whether it is more closely related to the Italic languages or to the Celtic languages. Despite the limited surviving material, several recurring words link the inscriptions and established Lusitanian as a distinct linguistic entity, though semantically clear vocabulary remains scarce.
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