Onomastics

Synopsis

According to some researchers today, although the information available is scarce and more than once questionable, little is known to suggest the hypothesis that pre-Latin Indo-European (Celtic) Latin predominated in ancient times in Gipuzkoa. In this work, I analyze the information that can be gleaned from Roman epigraphy and the books of geographers and historians, comparing it with medieval and modern Basque onomastics, always with the aim of helping to shed light on the linguistic situation of Ancient Gipuzkoa, both geographically and historically. I also try to see if the linguistic and archaeological data point in the same direction, to try to identify if there was only one or more cultural areas.