Spanish

The beginnings of Spanish lie not surprisingly in the Iberian Peninsula. During the sixth century BCE, the original inhabitants of this peninsular, the Iberians, began to intermarry with and form joint settlements with Celts, whose origins lay in central Europe, but whose nomadic ways has spread them far west and south of their origins. The blended culture that arose - which was called Celtiberian - used a form of Celtic (Mar-Molinero 38). The culture, and the language that they spoke appear to have been relatively stable (there are relatively few documents from this period that can be studied to determine the rate of language change). However, in the third century BCE, the culture and its language would be radically changed by the invasion of the Carthaginians in 237 BCE. The Carthaginians spoke Punic, which was a dialect of Phoenician languag

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