The Ethnical Situation on the Balkans during Antiquity: Linguistic Data”

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Pages: 361-369

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The aim of present paper is to examine the ethnical situation on the Balkan Peninsula in the second millennium B.C. on the basis of linguistic data. The author considers that this area was inhabited by Indo-European and non-Indo-European population. Although many a linguist rejects the “Pelasgian theory”, elaborated by Vl. Georgiev, there is a group of words sharing a set of phonetic developments and for the time being the best explanation for them remains within the framework of this theory. The paper presents some of the most convincing Pelasgian etymologies and examines two important phonetic features differentiating Pelasgian and Thracian (the action of Grassman’s law and the reflexes of the Indo-European laryngeals in both languages).

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