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Part alphabet, part syllabary.
Also known as: Northeastern Iberian script, Levantine script
The script used in eastern and southern Iberia before the Roman conquest.
Writes the Iberian language in a mixed system of alphabetic and syllabic signs.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Mixes two principles in one script: vowels and continuants have single letters while the stops have syllabic signs, so the system is alphabetic for some sounds and syllabic for others — a hybrid almost nothing else in this catalogue attempts.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular figures of straight strokes and small circles, some standing for single sounds and others for whole consonant-vowel syllables, written in either direction in different regions.