Lengua y poder en la Hispania prerromana

In this work I study the importance of some social factors, such as demography, interrelationship between ethnical groups, conquerors government and nationalistic feelings on the survival or disappearance of the Pre-Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula when they came in contact with another invader language.;In this dissertation I postulate different theses, from a sociolinguistic point of view, about the events that happened in the Iberian Peninsula. I establish the native character of the Pre-Roman languages in this territory, which in some areas--north, west and center of the Peninsula--were replaced by Indo-European languages. I give a new explanation for the relationship between the Urnenfield and the Iberian people previously established in Catalonia. I also point out that Phoenician linguistic influence in the south of the Iberian Peninsula was stronger than generally is believed.;I also establish the relative chronology of the arrival at the Iberian Peninsula by different Indo-European people and their languages and I clarified what social factors made the Indo-European languages prevail over the previous languages already established in these areas. I studied the reasons why the Basque survive, not only in front of Indo-European languages, but in front of Latin. Finally I prove that Basque did not affect the development of the Castilian language.