Sorothaptic language

Sorothaptic
Region	Iberian peninsula
Ethnicity	Urnfield culture
Era	ca. 200 CE
Language family	Indo-European (unclassified) Sorothaptic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sxo
Linguist list	sxo
Glottolog	None

Sorothaptic (Spanish: sorotáptico, Catalan: sorotàptic, from Greek σορός sorós 'funerary urn' and θαπτός thaptós 'buried') is a name coined by Catalan scholar Joan Coromines for the hypothetical language of the presumably Indo-European, but pre-Celtic, Bronze Age people of the Urnfield culture in the Iberian Peninsula (Price 2000:449).

Coromines used the concept of Sorothaptic to explain problematic words in the Iberian Romance languages. He identified the language with inscriptions on lead tablets, ca. 2nd century CE, found at Amélie-les-Bains on the Catalonian–French border; these include some Latin but also a non-Latin and non-Celtic component that Coromines believed to be Sorothaptic.

Bibliography

• Glanville Price, editor. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe.
• Cancik, Schneider,& Salazar, eds. 2008. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill.
• Coromines, Joan. 1976. Entre dos llenguatges (II). Curial Edicions Catalanes.