The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was
discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the
longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions. These texts
survive from the Early Iron Age in the south-western Iberian
Peninsula, the earliest writing from Atlantic Europe. By
recombining word roots, prefixes and endings previously attested,
the new inscription permits a major breakthrough with the language,
confirming word divisions and contributing to the critical mass of
evidence. It is now possible to take the case for Tartessian as an
Indo-European and specifically Celtic language a step further, to
ask what sort of Celtic language Tartessian was and how its syntax
and sound system compares with those of Celtiberian, Gaulish, Old
Irish and Welsh.
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