Talk:Thraco-Illyrian

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I tried to avoid slanting the article too much toward my POV (very skeptical of Thraco-Illyrian). However, I have the impression that Thraco-Illyrian is no longer favored, so I've indicated that. If someone has evidence that this impression is exaggerated, please provide references. From what I've read, I'm pretty certain that Thraco-Illyrian is currently treated as very hypothetical, and it is not the dominating theory in the field. Alexander 007 11:08, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also plan on starting Thraco-Phrygian. Not sure if Thraco-Illyrian and Thraco-Phrygian are necessarily mutually exclusive. However, if the attested Messapian language is included in Thraco-Illyrian, there is the obvious problem that Messapian and Phrygian (also attested) inscriptions do not suggest any close relation to each other, aside from PIE, AFAIK. Alexander 007 12:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I've read Paliga's quote in context (I have the pdf at hand) and I saw nothing to substantiate a statement such as Thracian and Illyrian being as close as Czech or Slovak, or even Portuguese and Spanish (though that doesn't seem as wild as the Czech--Slovak comparison); always possible of course. I will link the pdf later, in the article. It is primarly concerned with toponyms, not with discussing Thraco-Illyrian. To put things in perpective, it is quite a claim to even state that Dacian and Thracian were as close Czech and Slovak. Alexander 007 13:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also going to start a Daco-Thracian article (Thraco-Dacian will be a redirect). Alexander 007 15:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there is not enough to justify Thraco-Phrygian, and I will redirect it to a new article:Classification of Thracian. Alexander 007 13:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Word list[edit]

What's the source and meaning of the words in the comparision list? 惑乱分からん 01:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

what?/[edit]

it is no more favored becaue many things prove it to be false.