Celtiberian script

Origin

The Celtiberian script developed from the Iberian scripts. Only a small number of Celtiberian inscriptions dating from between the 6th and 1st centuries BC have been found. With the Roman take over of the Iberian peninsula, the Celtiberian script was gradually replaced by the Roman/Latin alphabet and eventually disappeared.

Notable features

The Celtiberian script was used mainly by druids for religious purposes.
This script is partly syllabic and partly alphabetic and was not well suited to the languages it was used to write.

Used to write:

Celtiberian, an extinct continental Celtic language which was spoken on the Iberian peninsula until about the 1st century BC. Celtiberian was related to the Celtic languages of Gaul (France) and Lepontic, a Celtic language once spoken in the area around Lake Lugano in Italy. The Celtiberian language absorbed many features from the local non-Indo-European languages, such as Iberian and Lusitanian.

Celtiberian script

Links

Free Celtiberian font (Celtic-Iberian)
http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/alley/1557/fonts1.htm

Iberian Epigraphy Page, by Jesús Rodríguez Ramos - details of the scripts and languages of pre-Roman Iberia (Spain and Portugual): http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/

ALPHABETUM is a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient languages that includes Celtiberian, and many other ancient scripts
http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html

Other syllabaries

Bamum, Blackfoot, Caroline Island Script, Carrier, Celtiberian, Cherokee, Cree, Cypriot, Hiragana, Iberian, Inuktitut, Katakana, Kpelle, Loma, Mende, Ndjuká, Nüshu, Ojibwe, Vai, Yi

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