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The article says: Excluding Dacian, whose status as a Thracian language is disputed1, and the footnote says that This is confirmed among others by Benjamin W. Fortson in his Indo-European Language and Culture, when he states that ""all attempts to relate Thracian to Phrygian, Illyrian, or Dacian ... are ... purely speculative"" (p. 90). ""Confirmed among other by..."" Who are the others that state that? Is the Romanian and undoubtably 99% of the foreign historiography wrong, and has been wrong for decades now in clasifying Dacian as a Thracian language? And what is with this tone: ""whose status as a Thracian language is disputed"" Disputed? Disputed by whome? By two nerdy wikipedia editors?  "