Thrakisch und Dakisch – Sprachen oder Dialekte?
Thracian and Dacian - Languages or Dialects?

Summary/Abstract: The hypothesis that Thracian and Dacian are two separate languages belongs to Vladimir Georgiev. It has both supporters and opponents. On the basis of analysis both of onomastic material (hydronyms, names of settlements, anthroponyms, theonyms and ethnonyms), and of appellatives (glosses), the paper checks the claim of considerable phonetic differences (presence or absence of a shift of the voiced and voiceless consonants) between the Thracian and the Dacian-Moesian region. Attention is devoted to the data on proper names formed on the same roots in both areas. An analysis is made of different graphic variants of other names with a view to studying the reasons for the appearance of the varying transcripts.

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