Paleo-Balkan languages
“Paleo-Balkan” is the name given to the collection of Indo-European languages spoken on the Balkan Peninsula in antiquity. Most of them are not very well-attested, with the major exception of Ancient Greek, and the lesser exceptions of Phrygian and Messapic. Because they’re not that well-attested, they’re difficult to classify beyond just “Indo-European” (except Phrygian, which seems to have formed a sub-group with Greek). Since the Hellenisation, Romanisation and then Slavicisation of the Balkans, the only Paleo-Balkan languages with descendants still spoken today are Greek and the ancestor of Albanian.
According to Wikipedia, the Paleo-Balkan languages can be grouped as follows:
- Unclassified
- Illyrian languages
- Illyrian proper
- Central Dalmatian
- Liburnian
- Messapic
- (?) Daco-Thracian
- Thracian
- (?) Daco-Moesian
- Dacian, Moesian and Getaean
- Mysian
- Paeonian
- Illyrian languages
- (?) Graeco-Phrygian