Paleo-Balkan languages

The Paleo-Balkan languages were the Indo-European languages which were spoken in the Balkans in ancient times:

• Dacian language
• Thracian language
• Illyrian language
• Paionian language
• Ancient Macedonian language

The only remnant of them is Albanian, but it is still disputed which language was its ancestor. Many substratum words of Paleo-Balkan origin are also found in Romanian, and some in South Slavic and Greek.

See also

• Origin of Albanians
• List of Dacian words
• Pelasgians
• Leleges
• Pre-Indo-Europeans

External Link

• TIED Essay on Paleo-Balkan languages