Thracian

Extinct language

Language Information

Thracian was spoken in antiquity in the eastern Balkans, in what are now Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and European Turkey. It is extinct.
Thracian was an Indo-European language known from a few short inscriptions, such as the Ezerovo gold ring, and from names recorded by Greek writers. It died out around the 6th century A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European
Subgroup
Thracian