Classification of Thracian
Classification of Thracian
Classification of Thracian
1.2 Thraco-Illyrian
The linguistic classication of the ancient Thracian language has long been a matter of contention and uncertainty, and there are widely varying hypotheses regarding its position among other Paleo-Balkan languages.[1][2]
It is not contested, however, that the Thracian languages
were Indo-European languages which had acquired satem
characteristics by the time they are attested.
end in -dava in Dacian and Mysian, as opposed to para, in Thracian placenames.[5] A series of authors favors Georgievs view. Nevertheless, Polome hesitates to
accept it.[6] Crossland considers this seems to be a divergence of a Thraco-Dacian language into northern and
southern groups of dialects, not as dierent as to rank as
separate languages .[7]
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Balto-Slavic
[2] Ilija Casule even links Thracian and Phrygian with the
Burushaski language, a language isolate spoken in northern Pakistan.
[3] Duridanov, Ivan. The Language of the Thracians.
A hypothesis that Thracian (or in other scenarios, DacoThracian) and the Baltic languages or the Balto-Slavic
languages form one branch of Indo-European has also
been proposed . Here again due to the scanty evidence,
though many close cognates exist between Balto-Slavic
and Thracian, there is not enough evidence to demonstrate that Thracian and Balto-Slavic or Thracian and
Baltic (excluding Slavic in some scenarios) form one
branch of Indo-European.
[4] The Moesi of Moesia are not to be confused with the Mysoi
(Mysians) of Mysia in ancient Anatolia, though some hypothesize that the Mysians are directly descended from the
Balkan Moesi. This is hypothesized mostly on the basis of
Strabo's claim that some Moesians had migrated to Mysia,
becoming the Mysians of Anatolia. Also in some classical
sources the Moesi of Moesia are called ; Thracologists often see this as a corruption. Thracologists have
noted a Thracian element in Mysia, but the Mysians are
Bibliography
Crossland, R.A.; Boardman, John (1982). Linguistic problems of the Balkan area in the late prehistoric
and early Classical period in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3, Part 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22496-3.
Polom, Edgar Charles (1982). Balkan Languages
(Illyrian, Thracian and Daco-Moesian)". Cambridge
Ancient History. III.1. pp. 866888.
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