{{Short description|Spanish linguist}}{{Infobox person | name = Xaverio Ballester | birth_name = Francisco Javier Ballester Gómez | citizenship = Spain | occupation = Linguist, profesor | known_for = Paleolithic continuity theory }} '''Xaverio Ballester''' (full name in Spanish transcription: Francisco Javier Ballester Gómez) is a Spanish linguist, professor at University of Valencia<ref>[http://cuentas.uv.es/cgi-bin/p/ActivaCuenta?docenciapdi:es:H8186 Profesor Ballester Gomez, Francisco Javier], Universitat de València</ref> and one of main proponents of Paleolithic continuity theory (aka Paleolithic continuity paradigm).<ref>Alinei, Mario. [http://www.continuitas.org/intro.html "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918203951/http://www.continuitas.org/intro.html |date=2019-09-18 }}, PCP study group website</ref>
== Career == Ballester obtained a PhD in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona in 1987. His subsequent teaching positions include: Professor titular of Latin Philology in the University of Zaragoza (1989);<ref>[http://moncayo.unizar.es/info/oposicionesyconcursos.nsf/currivitae/C00261/$FILE/ballester_2009_29.pdf?OpenElement Currículum Vitae de miembros de comisiones para concursos de acceso a los cuerpos docentes universitarios] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311180934/http://moncayo.unizar.es/info/oposicionesyconcursos.nsf/currivitae/C00261/$FILE/ballester_2009_29.pdf?OpenElement |date=March 11, 2014 }}, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2009.</ref> Professor of Latin Philology in the University of Valencia (1997); Professor of Latin Philology in the University of La Laguna (1997, resign). Ballester is also co-editor of the journal ''Liburna''. thumb|Map of the Astures region of northern Spain In 2002, he proposed that the Astures people of northern Spain are not of Indo-European origin, citing evidence from Ancient Greek sources, the phonology of Asturian, and the practice of ''covada,'' a tradition where the father stimulates childbirth.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Carvajal |first=Guillermo |date=2024-08-28 |title=Astures: A Non-Indo-European People in Northern Spain? |url=https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/08/astures-a-non-indo-european-people-in-northern-spain/ |access-date=2026-03-19 |website=LBV Magazine English Edition |language=en}}</ref>
== Works == ;Works on the Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm * ''Las Primeras Palabras de la Humanidad, Valencia'' 2002. * ''Sobre el origen anindoeuropeo de los ástures y maragatos''. Palaeohispanica, 2002.<ref name=":0" /> * ''Zoónimos ancestrales'', Valencia 2007. * ''Linguística Indo-Europeia Tradicional e Paradigma da Continuidade Paleolítica cara a cara'', Lisboa 2009. * ''Origen de la lengua valenciana.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-26 |title=La RACV diu que el valencià «afona les arrels en la més profunda prehistòria valenciana» |url=https://www.diarilaveu.cat/llengua/la-racv-diu-que-el-valencia-afona-lesarrels-en-la-mes-profunda-prehistoria-valenciana-489663/ |access-date=2026-03-19 |website=Diari La Veu del País Valencià |language=ca}}</ref>
;Other books * ''A Catulo usque ad Catullum. Studia neoterica'', Barcelona 1988. * ''Fonemática del latín clásico. Consonantismo'', Zaragoza 1996. * ''Los Mejores Títulos y los Peores Versos de la Literatura Latina'', Barcelona 1998. * ''Gálatas, Getas y Atlantes. Tres Ensayos de GeoFilología Clásic''a, Valencia 2010.
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==External links== * [http://www.continuitas.org/textsauthor.html#ballester Ballester's works at Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm website] {{in lang|en|es|it}}
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