Aquitanian language

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The Aquitanian language, also Vasco-Aquitanian or Eusko-Aquitanian, was the language of the ancient Vasco-Aquitanian peoples, namely the Aquitani and Vascones. In Roman times, the Aquitani lived north of the Pyrenees, between the Garonne river and the Atlantic Ocean, while the Vascones lived south of the Pyrenees, between the Cantabrian coast and the Ebro, in the area of present-day Navarre. Aquitanian is related to Basque, both being classified as Vasconic languages. The term Aquitanian derives from Aquitania, the name given by Caesar to the lands inhabited by the Aquitani. Modern scholarship applies it in two senses. In a narrow sense it denotes only the language spoken by the Aquitani north of the Pyrenees. In a broad sense it covers the whole set of related varieties on both slopes of the range, for which Joaquín Gorrochategui distinguishes Aquitanian proper in the north from Vasconic, the language of the Vascones, in the south. Beside a possible short inscription on the Hand of Irulegi...

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