Explore: Pelasgian Language

other regions of the Aegean. Populations identified as "Pelasgian" spoke a language or languages that at the time Greeks ambivalently identified as "barbarian"

attributes a share in the foundation of Etruria to the Pelasgians of Lemnos and Imbros. The Pelasgians are also referred to by Herodotus as settlers in Lemnos

Baltic, the Dacian and the "Pelasgian" languages. More distant were its relations with the other Indo-European languages, and especially with Greek, the

interpreted Bronze Age Greece as changing from a matriarchal society under the Pelasgians to a patriarchal one under continual pressure from victorious Greek-speaking

theorised by some linguists). Dacian, Thracian, the Baltic languages (Duridanov also adds Pelasgian) as a distinct branch of Indo-European, e.g., Schall (1974)

[helːɛːnikɛ́ː]) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece

Eteocypriot Illyrian Lemnian Liburnian Ottoman Turkish Paeonian Pelasgian Phrygian Thracian Balkan sprachbund Paleo-Balkan languages Languages of Europe

(Argolis), Ambracia, Ambracia Era c. 2400-1200 BCE (North), 1200-700 BCE Language family Unattested Possibly Pelasgian language? Language codes ISO 639-3 –

deemed to have “barbaric” tendencies. Further, the Pelasgians of Lemnos reportedly spoke a pre-Greek language, which contributed to the construction of narratives

are really Pelasgian, though they have lost the name,—if one must pronounce judging by these, the Pelasgians used to speak a Barbarian language. If therefore