Key facts
- Region
- Bulgaria , European Turkey , parts of Southern Serbia , parts of the region of Macedonia (including Paeonia ), regions in Northern Greece , parts of Romania , parts of Bithynia in Anatolia . Probably also spoken in parts of Dardania .
- Extinct
- 6th century AD
- Language family
- Indo-European Daco-Thracian (?) Thracian
- Writing system
- Greek
- Iso 639 3
- txh
- Linguist list
- txh
- Glottolog
- thra1250
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- extinct language
- Subclass of
- Indo-European
- Country
- Thrace
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Encyclopedic overview
Thracian (/ˈθreɪʃən/ THRAY-shən) is an extinct and poorly attested language, spoken in ancient times in Southeast Europe by the Thracians. The linguistic affinities of the Thracian language are poorly understood, but it is generally agreed that it was an Indo-European language.
The point at which Thracian became extinct is a matter of dispute. However, it is generally accepted that Thracian was still in use in the 6th century AD: Antoninus of Piacenza wrote in 570 that there was a monastery in the Sinai, at which the monks spoke Greek, Latin, Syriac, Egyptian, and Bessian – a Thracian dialect.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thracian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.