DANUBIAN LANGUAGE

The danubian language family is the group of languages and idioms spoken by the ancient Danubian peoples (once entirely settled in the low danubian area), considered part of the indoeuropeans language families (P.I.E.) and belonged to the group of Paleo-Balkan languages including the Albanians and Anatolic ancient ones.

The main danubian language attested along the history of european integration were: the Phrygian, the Thracian and the Macedonian idioms, the languages spoken by the Illyrians people and the Lusitanian idiom among the Iberians people spoken languages. Except for the Phrygian which is considered similar to Armenian and owned a specific alphabet of 19 letters, the others Danubian languages used the ancient Greek alphabet until they disappeared probably around VI century AD cause of the Slavs invasions.

Nowadyas the Danubian languages seem to be completely disappeared in Europe, even if they could have been inherited by the local dialets of nowadays Veneto and Puglia regions in Italy, where the Illyrians tribes of Veneti and Messapians have lived since their settlement and have had a long lasting autonomy within the byanztine themes of Venetia and Longobardia and the following Republic of Venice and Apulia et Calabria theme (at the end annexed to the Sicily kingdom by the Normandy dinasty).

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