Clasification

As an extinct language that has no literature left, there's little known about it, but many words can be found in Greek sources or inscriptions (most of them written with Greek script) on both buildings and coins.

Various relationships were proposed, among which with the Dacian language (which is sometimes considered a Northern dialect) or Phyrgian language (who are considered Thracians that migrated to Anatolia), but both are hard to prove, due to the scarcity of words left since they are all extinct languages.

Also with Albanian language or Armenian language have been proposed links, but that's hard to prove because of the large changes in these languages since ancient times.

Geografical distribution

It was spoken in the teritory of today's Bulgaria, Southern Romania, Yugoslavia and Northern Greece.

Vocabulary

The vocabulary known is of about 1400 words, most definively of Indo-European origin, many of them having direct cognates with Slavic languages, Baltic languages or even German languages.

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