Editing Dacian language (section)

==Origin==
There is scholarly consensus that Dacian was a member of the [[Indo-European language|Indo-European family of languages]]. These descended, according to the two leading theories of the expansion of IE languages, from a [[proto-Indo-European]] (PIE) language that originated in an [[urheimat]] ("original homeland") in the southern Ukraine/ Caucasus region ([[Kurgan hypothesis]]) or in central [[Anatolia]] ([[Anatolian hypothesis]]). According to both theories, Indo-European reached the Carpathian region no later than c. 2500&nbsp;BC.{{sfn|Renfrew|1987|p=149 (map)}}{{sfn|Mallory|1989|pp=107, 109}}

According to one scenario, proto-Thracian populations emerged during the [[Bronze Age]] from the fusion of the indigenous [[Eneolithic|Eneolithic (Chalcolithic)]] population with the intruders of the transitional [[Indo-Europeanization Period]].{{sfn|Dumitrescu|Bolomey|Mogosanu|1982|p=53}}{{sfn|Hoddinott|1989|p=52}} From these proto-Thracians, in the [[Iron Age]], developed the Dacians / North Thracians of the [[Danubian-Carpathian Area]] on the one hand and the Thracians of the eastern [[Balkan Peninsula]] on the other.{{sfn|Dumitrescu|Bolomey|Mogosanu|1982|p=53}}{{sfn|Hoddinott|1989|p=52}}

According to Georgiev, the Dacian language was spread south of the Danube by tribes from Carpathia, who reached the central Balkans in the period 2000–1000 BC, with further movements (e.g., the [[Triballi]] tribe) after 1000&nbsp;BC, until c. 300&nbsp;BC.{{sfn|Georgiev|1977|p=287}} According to the ancient geographer [[Strabo]], Daco-Moesian was further spread into [[Asia Minor]] in the form of [[Mysian language|Mysian]] by a migration of the [[Moesi]] people; Strabo asserts that Moesi and Mysi were variants of the same name.{{sfn|Strabo|loc=VII.3.2}}