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The population of today’s Romania spoke in antiquity a language known as Dacian, classified by linguists as an Indo-European language. The Dacian language remains a mystery, and the limited direct testimony of written documents, mostly toponyms, hydronyms, and personal names, transmitted through Greek and Latin alphabets, The geographic proximity, the economic exchanges, and pastoralism, among the populations of the Dacian-Getae, Mysian, Thracian, Dardanian, Illyrian, Macedonian, and Greeks, led to sharing specialized vocabulary for commercial exchanges, forming the main substrata that underline the Balkan peoples of today. The phonological developments of the Daco-Romanian language (DRom), was the subject of many linguistic studies, among which the Istoria limbii române (ILR) published in 1969, and of I. I. Russu (IIR) in his study Etnogeneza românilor published in 1981, studies instrumental in the analysis of unexplained Romanian forms.
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Chelariu, A.R. (2023). The Daco-Romanian Cultural Vocabulary. In: Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04051-1_27
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