Aquitanian language

The Aquitanian language was the language of the ancient Aquitani, spoken on both sides of the western Pyrenees in ancient Aquitaine (approximately between the Pyrenees and the Garonne, in the region later known as Gascony) and in the areas south of the Pyrenees in the valleys of the Basque Country before the Roman conquest. It probably survived in Aquitania north of the Pyrenees until the Early Middle Ages.

Aquitanian
Native toFrance, Spain
RegionWestern/Central Pyrenees, Gascony
Extinctby the Early Middle Ages
(except in the Northern Basque Country)
an early form of Basque (language isolate)
Language codes
ISO 639-3xaq
xaq
GlottologNone

Archaeological, toponymical, and historical evidence shows that it was a language or group of languages that represent a precursor of the Basque language. The most important pieces of evidence are a series of votive and funerary texts in Latin, dated to the first three centuries AD, which contain about 400 personal names and 70 names of gods.

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