Dacian language

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The Dacian language was an extinct Indo-European tongue once spoken by the ancient Dacian people in the region that is now primarily Romania and surrounding areas.

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Label Occurrences
Dacian language canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
ancient language
extinct language
associatedPeople Getae
surface form: Getae (often linked in ancient sources)
attestedBy ancient Greek sources
ancient Latin sources
epigraphic evidence
ethnonyms
hydronyms
personal names
toponyms
closelyRelatedTo Thracian language (hypothesized)
consideredPartOf Illyrian language
surface form: Paleo-Balkan languages
era ancient times
extinction around 5th century AD
geographicExtent eastern and southeastern Carpathian region
glottocode daci1242
hasAlternativeName Geto-Dacian (in some scholarship)
hasReconstructionStatus poorly reconstructed
hasUncertainClassification true
hasUncertainRelationshipWith Illyrian language
Phrygian language
ISO639-3 xdc
knownFrom limited lexical material
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
linguisticEvidenceType glosses in classical texts
onomastic data
possiblyInfluenced Romanian language substrate
primarySourcesLanguage Greek
Latin
region Carpathian Mountains
Lower Danube region
researchField Indo-European studies
historical linguistics
spokenBy Dacian tribes
surface form: Dacians
spokenDuring Dacian Wars
surface form: Roman conquest of Dacia
spokenIn Dacia
parts of modern Bulgaria
parts of modern Hungary
parts of modern Moldova
parts of modern Serbia
territory of modern Romania
status extinct
subfamily possibly Balto-Slavic
possibly Thraco-Dacian
supersededBy Romanized Dacians
surface form: Vulgar Latin in Roman Dacia
timePeriod at least 1st millennium BC to early 1st millennium AD
writingSystem unknown or poorly attested

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# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Dacian language
Description of subject: The Dacian language was an extinct Indo-European tongue once spoken by the ancient Dacian people in the region that is now primarily Romania and surrounding areas.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dacian tribes spokeLanguage Dacian language