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1 day ago · Illyrians. Illyrian tribes in the 1st–2nd centuries AD. The Illyrians ( Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks .
6 days ago · Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg – Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE ). [2] Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region. [3] [4] Whether descendants or sister languages of what was called ...
- c. 1000 BCE – 600 CE
- Proto-Indo-European
- Balkan Peninsula
2 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
2 days ago · The character of Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales from 1932, is canonically a Cimmerian: in Howard's fictional Hyborian Age, the Cimmerians are a pre-Celtic people who were the ancestors of the Irish and Scots ( Gaels ).
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2 days ago · The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language. [1]
- ca. 1000 BC
- Italic languages
4 days ago · Albania, country in southern Europe, located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula on the Strait of Otranto, the southern entrance to the Adriatic Sea. The capital city is Tirana ( Tiranë ). Albanians refer to themselves as shqiptarë —often taken to mean “sons of eagles,” though it may well refer to “those associated with the ...
3 days ago · t. e. Dacian ( / ˈdeɪʃən /) is an extinct language generally believed to be a member of the Indo-European language family that was spoken in the ancient region of Dacia . While there is general agreement among scholars that Dacian was an Indo-European language, there are divergent opinions about its place within the IE family:
