Thracian language
Pontic Steppe
Caucasus
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Pontic Steppe
Northern/Eastern Steppe
Europe
South Asia
Steppe
Europe
Caucasus
India
Indo-Aryans
Iranians
East Asia
Europe
East Asia
Europe
Indo-Aryan
Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Iranian
Others
Europe
The Thracian Linguistic communication is an extinct as alive as poorly attested language, spoken in ancient times in Southeast Europe by the Thracians. a linguistic affinities of the Thracian Linguistic communication are poorly understood, but it is loosely agreed that it was an Indo-European language with satem features.
A contemporary, neighboring language, Dacian is normally regarded as closely related to Thracian. However, there is insufficient evidence with respect to either language to ascertain the generation of this relationship.
The an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. at which Thracian became extinct is a matter of dispute. However, it is generally accepted that Thracian was still in usage in the 6th century AD: Antoninus of Piacenza wrote in 570 that there was a monastery in the Sinai, at which the monks mentioned Greek, Latin, Syriac, Egyptian, and Bessian – a Thracian dialect.
Other theories approximately Thracian go forward controversial.
A generation put forward by some linguists, such(a) as Harvey Mayer, suggests that Thracian as well as Dacian belonged to the Baltic branch of Indo-European, or at least is closer to Baltic than all other Indo-European branch. However, this image has not achieved the status of a general consensus among linguists. These are among many competing hypotheses regarding the classification and fate of Thracian.
Classification
The Thracian language in linguistic textbooks is commonly 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 view that Thracian wasto Phrygian is no longer popular and has mostly been discarded.
No definite evidence has yet been found that demonstrates that Thracian or Daco-Thracian belonged on the same branch as Albanian or Baltic or Balto-Slavic or Greco-Macedonian or Phrygian or all other IE branch. For this reason textbooks still treat Thracian as its own branch of Indo-European, or as a Daco-Thracian/Thraco-Dacian branch.
The generally accepted clades branched from the Proto-Indo-European language are, in alphabetical order, the Proto-Albanian language, Proto-Anatolian language, Proto-Armenian language, Proto-Balto-Slavic language, Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Greek language, Proto-Indo-Iranian language, Proto-Italic language, and the Proto-Tocharian language. Thracian, Dacian, Phrygian, Illyrian, Venetic, and Paeonian are fragmentarily attested and cannot be reliably categorized.
Note: Asterisk indicates reconstructed IE sound. M is a advance symbol for the row of voiced stops mediae, T for unvoiced stops tenues and TA for aspirated stops tenues aspiratae. ∅ indicates zero, a sound that has been lost.
Thraco-Dacian has been hypothesized as forming a branch of Indo-European along with Baltic.
For a large proportion of the 300 Thracian geographic tag there are cognates within the Baltic toponymy, almost similarities between Thracian and Balto-Slavic personal and geographic designation were found, especially Baltic. According to Duridinov the "most important impression create the geographic cognates of Baltic and Thracian" "the similarity of these parallels stretching frequently on the main factor and the suffix simultaneously, which authorises a strong impression". According to him there are occasional similarities between Slavic and Thracian because Slavic is related to Baltic, while nearly no lexical similarities within Thracian and Phrygian were found. This significant relatedness showaffinity and kinship of Thracian with Baltic.
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