thumb|[[Escriptures paleohispàniques]]
thumb|[[Llengües paleohispàniques]]
thumb|Un [[signari ibèric nord-oriental no-dual]]
thumb|Un [[signari ibèric nord-oriental dual]]
thumb|Una proposta de [[signari ibèric sud-oriental (Correa 2004).]]
thumb|Un [[alfabet grecoibèric.]]

Les '''escriptures ibèriques''' són les escriptures que els llengua. 

* escriptura ibèrica nord-oriental
** Variant dual (ss. IV-III aC)
** Variant no-dual (ss. II-I aC)
* escriptura ibèrica sud-oriental
* alfabet grecoibèric

Tot i que normalment la referència genèrica a un signari o signari ibèric nord-oriental, atès que és amb diferència el més usat (95%). Del signari ibèric nord-oriental se’n coneixen dues variants: la variant dual diferencia els sil·labogrames oclusius dentals i velars sords dels sonors amb un traç afegit de forma que la forma simple representa la sonora i la forma complexa la sorda, mentre que la variant no-dual només presenta les formes simples dels sil·labogrames. 

El sud-oriental estan d’alguna forma emparentats, però no poden ser considerats meres variants d’un mateix signari, atès que encara que el repertori de signes és similar el seu valor no coincideix en absolut en molts casos. Tant és així, que mentre que el llengua desconeguda, que al lengua. 

Mentre que l’sud-oriental presenten la característica distintiva de les escriptures mixtes que s'identifiquen normalment com a semisil·labaris. Sobre l’origen de les escriptures paleohispàniques no hi ha consens: per alguns investigadors el seu origen està directa i únicament lligat a l’alfabet fenici,  mentre que per d’altres en la seva creació també hi hauria influït l’alfabet grec.

250px|thumb|Iberian scripts in the context of Paleohispanic scripts
250px|right|thumb|The Iberian language in the context of [[Paleohispanic languages. Light green (along the Mediterranean coast) is the Iberian language, dark grey (mainly southern Portugal) is the Tartessian language, dark blue (central Spain) is the Celtiberian language, light blue (mainly northern Portugal) is the Lusitanian language, and dark green (Eastern Pyrenees) is the Aquitanian language.]]
250px|thumb|The proposed 'dual' variant of northeastern Iberian (Based on Ferrer i Jané 2005)
250px|right|thumb|Lead plaque from [[Ullastret using the dual signary.]]
250px|thumb|A northeastern Iberian signary (not dual).
250px|thumb|Possible values of the southeastern Iberian signary (Correa 2004). In red are the most debatable signs.
250px|right|thumb||Lead plaque from La Bastida de les Alcuses ([[Moixent) using the southeastern signary.]]
250px|thumb|A Greco-Iberian alphabet.
250px|right|thumb||Lead plaque from la Serreta ([[Alcoi) using the Greco-Iberian alphabet.]]

The '''Iberian scripts''' are the semi-syllabic rather than purely alphabetic. The oldest Iberian inscriptions date to the 4th or possibly the 5th century BCE, and the latest from end of the 1st century BCE or possibly the beginning of the 1st century CE. 

==Variants==
There are two main graphic as well as geographic variants in the family:
* Northeastern Iberian script
** Dual variant (4th century BCE and 3rd century BCE) (tentative)
** Non-dual variant (2nd century BCE and 1st century BCE)
* Southeastern Iberian script

In the sense that the Iberian scripts are the scripts created for the Iberians to represent the Iberian language, the Greco-Iberian alphabet,  a separate adaptation of the Greek alphabet, was also an Iberian script. It was used mainly in Alacant and Murcia. Likewise, neither the southwestern script, very similar to southeastern Iberian script but used for the Tartessian language, nor the Celtiberian script, a direct adaptation of the northeastern Iberian script used for the Celtiberian language, are technically Iberian scripts. 

The northeastern Iberian script is often known simply as the '''Iberian script''', because it is the script of 95% of known Iberian inscriptions. These have been found mainly in the northeastern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula, mostly along the coast from Languedoc-Roussillon to Alacant, but with a deep penetration on the Ebre valley.

The southeastern Iberian script is poorly attested, and there are some gaps in the records: There are no positively identified symbols for /gu/, /do/, and /m/, for example. Unlike the northeastern Iberian script the decipherment of the southeastern Iberian script is not still closed, because there are a significant group of signs without consensus value. The southeastern inscriptions have been found mainly in the southeastern quadrant of Iberia: Eastern Andalusia, Murcia, Albacete, Alacant and València.

There is substantial graphic variation in the Iberian glyphs, and over the past several decades many scholars have come to believe that, at least in northeastern Iberian script (and recently also in Celtiberian script) some of this variation is meaningful. It appears that the original simple letters were assigned specifically to the voiced consonants /b/, /d/, /g/, whereas the voiceless consonants /t/ and /k/ were derived from /d/ and /g/ syllables with the addition of a stroke. (This is the so-called ''dual signary'' model: see the image at right). If correct, this innovation would parallel the creation of the Latin letter G from C by the addition of a stroke.

==Typology==
Excepting the syllabic: Continuants (fricative sounds like /s/ and stops /b/, /d/, /t/, /g/, and /k/) were written with ''syllabic'' glyphs that represented both consonant and vowel together. That is, in written Iberian, ''ga'' displayed no resemblance to ''ge,'' and ''bi'' had no connection to ''bo.'' This possibly unique writing system is called a "semi-syllabary". 

The southeastern script was written right to left, as was the Phoenician alphabet, whereas the northeastern script reversed this to left to right, as in the Greek alphabet. 