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- Illyrian language, Indo-European language spoken in pre-Roman times along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and in southeastern Italy. The language of the Illyrian fragments found in Italy is usually called Messapic, or Messapian.
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Today, the main source of authoritative information about Illyrian consists of a handful of Illyrian words cited in classical sources and numerous examples of Illyrian anthroponyms, ethnonyms, toponyms and hydronyms.
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Illyrian language, Indo-European language spoken in pre-Roman times along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and in southeastern Italy. The language of the Illyrian fragments found in Italy is usually called Messapic, or Messapian.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
There are no inscriptions written in ‘Illyrian’. Consequently the features of the ‘Illyrian’ language have been puzzled out (and genetically defined) merely on the basis of personal names and place names from the Balkans; on this basis *Messapic has also been derived from ‘Illyrian’.
Mar 22, 2024 · 1000 BCE - 500. Major Events: Macedonian Wars. Key People: Belisarius. Basil of Ancyra. Drusus Julius Caesar. Related Topics: Illyrian. Related Places: Croatia. Albania. Montenegro. North Macedonia. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 28, 2008 · Daco-Moesian Danube Dacian Balkan Language Thracian Illyrian. Type. Chapter. Information. The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 866 - 898. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521224963.026. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 1982. Access options.
- E. C. Polomé
- 1982
Our primary basis postulating a distinct Illyrian language and concluding that it was spoken, in the middle of the first millennium B.C., in western, northwestern and, possibly, central parts of the Balkan peninsula, consists of statements by Classical Greek authors.
No Illyrian texts survive, so sources for identifying Illyrian words have been identified by Hans Krahe [1] as being of four kinds: inscriptions, glosses of Illyrian words in classical texts, names—including proper names (mostly inscribed on tombstones), toponyms and river names—and Illyrian loanwords in other languages.
