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The Paleo-Balkan languages are a geographical grouping of various Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans and surrounding areas in ancient times. In antiquity, Dacian, Greek, Illyrian, Messapic, Paeonian, Phrygian and Thracian were the Paleo-Balkan languages which were attested in literature.
This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled by Balkan countries. With the exception of several Turkic languages, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. A subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studied sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.
Paleo-Balkans refers to: Prehistoric Balkans. Paleo-Balkan languages. Paleo-Balkan peoples. Thracians. Dacians. Illyrians. Ancient Greeks. List of Ancient Greek tribes.
Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region.
- c. 1000 BCE – 600 CE
- Proto-Indo-European
- Balkan Peninsula
Paleo-Balkan languages and peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia between 5th and 1st century BC. The name Armeno-Phrygian is used for a hypothetical language branch, which would include the languages spoken by the Phrygians and the Armenians, and would be a branch of the Indo-European language family, or a sub-branch of either the proposed ...
Satemization extended to the Proto-Balto-Slavic languages as well (though not quite so completely) and, apparently, to at least some of the Balkan languages, most likely Dacian, Thracian, and Phrygian. It did not extend to Greek, Macedonian, or Messapian. The status of Illyrian is uncertain, although Albanian, possible a descendent, is a Satem ...
