Aquitanian | |
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Native to | France, Spain |
Region | Western/Central Pyrenees, Gascony |
Extinct | by the Early Middle Ages |
Iberian | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xaq |
xaq | |
Glottolog | None |
The Aquitanian language was the language of the ancient Aquitani, a people living in Roman times between the Pyrenees, the Garonne river and the Atlantic Ocean.[1] Epigraphic evidence for this language has also been found south of the Pyrenees, in Navarre and Castile.[2]
There is no surviving text written in Aquitanian. The only evidence come from onomastic data (roughly 200 personal names and about 60 deity names) that have survived indirectly in Latin inscriptions from the Roman imperial period, primarily between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, with a few possibly dating to the 4th or 5th centuries.[1]