Editing Dacian language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Indo-European language of the Carpathian region}}
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{{Use British English|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Dacian
| states           = [[Dacia]]
| ethnicity        = [[Dacians]]
| extinct          = 6th century AD<ref>{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xdc |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141230224410/http://multitree.org/codes/xdc |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 December 2014 |title=Dacian |access-date=2024-01-29 }}</ref>
| ref              = 
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Daco-Thracian]] (?)
| fam3             = 
| fam4             = 
| iso3             = xdc
| linglist         = xdc
| glotto           = daci1234
| glottorefname    = Dacian
| script           = [[Latin alphabet|Latin]], [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] (limited use)
| region           = modern-day [[Romania]], northern [[Bulgaria]], eastern [[Serbia]]; [[Moldova]], southwestern [[Ukraine]], southeastern [[Slovakia]], southern [[Poland]], northeastern [[Hungary]]
}}
{{Indo-European topics}}

'''Dacian''' ({{IPAc-en|'|d|ei|sh|@|n}}) is an extinct language generally believed to be a member of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language family]] that was spoken in the ancient region of [[Dacia]].

The Dacian language is poorly documented. Unlike [[Phrygian language|Phrygian]], which is documented by c. 200 inscriptions, only one Dacian inscription is believed to have survived.{{sfn|Asenova|1999|p=212}}{{sfn|Nandris|1976|p=730}} The [[List of Dacian plant names|Dacian names for a number of medicinal plants and herbs]] may survive in ancient literary texts,{{sfn|Dioscorides}}{{sfn|Pseudo-Apuleius}} including about 60 plant-names in [[Dioscorides]].{{sfn|Price|1998|p=120}} About 1,150 personal names{{sfn|Nandris|1976|p=730}}{{sfn|Petrescu-Dîmbovița|1978|p=130}} and 900 [[toponyms]] may also be of Dacian origin.{{sfn|Nandris|1976|p=730}} A few hundred words in modern [[Romanian language|Romanian]] and [[Albanian language|Albanian]] may have originated in ancient Balkan languages such as Dacian (see [[List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin]]). Linguists have reconstructed about 100 [[List of reconstructed Dacian words|Dacian words from placenames]] using established techniques of [[comparative linguistics]], although only 20–25 such reconstructions had achieved wide acceptance by 1982.{{sfn|Polomé|1982|p=872}}