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The Thracian language in linguistic textbooks is usually treated either as its own branch of Indo-European, or is grouped with Dacian, together forming a Daco-Thracian branch of IE. Older textbooks often grouped it also with Illyrian or Phrygian. The belief that Thracian was close to Phrygian is no longer popular and has mostly been discarded.
- 6th century AD
The Greek language itself may be grouped with the Phrygian language and Armenian language, both of which have been grouped with Thracian (see: Graeco-Phrygian, Graeco-Armenian and the section "Thraco-Phrygian or Thraco-Armenian hypothesis" above.
Thracians were people living in the eastern Balkan peninsula and were speakers of at least one Indo-European language. They were the definition of a barbarian and the second most numerous nation on earth. Geography of Thrace. Their land can be approximately defined as northeastern Greece, European Turkey, Bulgaria, eastern Serbia and Romania.
Thracian language, language spoken by the inhabitants of Thrace primarily in pre-Greek and early Greek times. Generally assumed to be an Indo-European language, Thracian is known from proper names, glosses in Greek writings, and a small number of inscriptions, some of which appear on coins; these.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thracians spoke the extinct Thracian language and shared a common culture. The Thracians culturally interacted with the peoples surrounding them – Greeks, Persians, Scythians and Celts – although such interactions mostly affected the circles of the aristocratic elite of Thracian society.
The theory about the preservation of the Thracian language until the end of the Antiquity and the settling of the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula is supported by research on the available data: evidence provided by Greek and Roman authors, the data from inscriptions and onomastic material – anthroponyms, toponyms, oronyms and hydronyms.
Feb 26, 2022 · Although there is unanimity about the Indo-European character of the ancient Thracian language as well as of other ancient languages often referred to as being related with the former,...