page_title: Dacian language
section_title: Geographical extent
hierarchical_section_title: Dacian language / Geographical extent
caption_attribution_description: Български: Карта на походите на Буребиста. Дакийски градове и крепости в Дакия по времето на Буребиста. Čeština: Dácie za vlády krále Burebista, 60 - 44 př. n. l. English: Dacian Kingdom around 60-44 BC during the time of Burebista (r. 82-44 BC), including the Dacian king's military campaigns Español: Dacia en la época del rey Berebistas (60-44&#160;a.&#160;C.), incluyendo sus campañas militares. Français&#160;: La Dacie au temps de Burebiste de 60 à 44 av. J.-C. - Campagne militaires dace de Burebista Magyar: Boirebisztasz hadjáratai. Italiano: Mappa di Dacia, Mesia e dei dintorni durante le campagne di Burebista. Македонски: Дакиското царство на Буребиста во 1 в. пр н. е. Română: Dacia în perioada 60-44 î.Hr., în timpul regelui Burebista (r. 82 î.Hr. - 44 î.Hr). Include campanii militare şi triburi geto-dacice. Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Pohodi Burebiste. Tiếng Việt: Bản đồ khu vự trong các chiến dịch của Burebista.
context_page_description: Dacian is an extinct language, generally believed to be Indo-European, that was spoken in the Carpathian region in antiquity.
  In the 1st century, it was probably the predominant language of the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia and possibly of some surrounding regions.
  The language was probably extinct by the 7th century AD.
  While there is general agreement among scholars that Dacian was an Indo-European language, there are divergent opinions about its place within the IE family:
  Dacian was a dialect of the extinct Thracian language, or vice versa, e. g. Baldi and Trask.
  Dacian was a language distinct from Thracian but closely related to it, belonging to the same branch of the Indo-European family.
  Dacian, Thracian, the Baltic languages formed a distinct branch of Indo-European, e.g. Schall, Duridanov, Radulescu and Mayer.
  The theory of Georgiev Daco-Moesian was the ancestor of Albanian, belonging to a branch other than Thracian, but closely related to Thracian and distinct from Illyrian.
  The Dacian language is poorly documented. Unlike for Phrygian, which is documented by c. 200 inscriptions, only one Dacian inscription is believed to have survived.
caption: Map of Dacia 1st century BC
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