Editing Dacian language (section)

===Linguistic area===
Dacian was probably one of the major languages of [[south-eastern Europe]], spoken in the area between the [[Danube]], Northern Carpathians, the [[Dnister]] River and the Balkans, and the [[Black Sea]] shore.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that are found in the records of ancient writers Strabo, [[Cassius Dio]], [[Trogus Pompeius]], [[Appian]], and [[Pliny the Elder]], contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus (Balkan) Mountains, the Black Sea, Dnister River, Northern Carpathians, and middle Danube. Strabo gave more specific information, recording that "the Dacians speak the same language as the Getae" a dialect of the Thracian language.{{sfn|Bolovan|Constantiniu|Michelson|Pop|1997|p=10}} The information provided by the Greek geographer is complemented by other literary, linguistic, and archaeological evidence. Accordingly, the Geto-Dacians may have occupied territory in the west and north-west, as far as Moravia and the middle Danube, to the area of present-day [[Serbia]] in the south-west, and as far as the Haemus Mountains (Balkans) in the south. The eastern limit of the territory inhabited by the Geto-Dacians may have been the shore of the Black Sea and the Tyras River (Dnister), possibly at times reaching as far as the [[Bug (river)|Bug]] River, the northern limit including the Trans-Carpathian westernmost [[Ukraine]] and southern [[Poland]].{{sfn|Bolovan|Constantiniu|Michelson|Pop|1997|pp=10–11}}

Over time, some peripheral areas of the Geto-Dacians' territories were affected by the presence of other people, such as the [[Celts]] in the west, the [[Illyrians]] in the south-west, the [[Greeks]] and [[Scythians]] in the east and the [[Bastarnae]] in the north-east. Nevertheless, between the Danube River (West), the Haemus Mountains (S), the Black Sea (E), the Dniester River (NE) and the northern Carpathians, a continuous Geto-Dacian presence as majority was permanently maintained, according to some scholars.{{sfn|Bolovan|Constantiniu|Michelson|Pop|1997|p=11}} According to the Bulgarian linguist Georgiev, the Daco-Mysian region included Dacia (approximately contemporary Romania and Hungary east of the [[Tisza]] River, Mysia (Moesia) and Scythia Minor (contemporary Dobrogea).{{sfn|Georgiev|1981|p=148}}

[[File:A_mai_that_Shows_Where_the_Dacians_lived.png|thumb|right|alt=this map shows where dacians mostly lived and where their language was spoken|The approximate map showing where the Dacian language was spoken]]