There are three opinions among scientists. Thracians spoke language much closer to Baltic languages, Thracians spoke language closer to Slavic (South Slavic) languages and Thracians spoke language which was between Baltic and Slavic people. I will try to give a lot of examples Thracian, Lithuanian/Latvian and Serbian/South Slavic words and more.
Haplogroup J2 and Thracians. "Cruciani et al.’s E-V13 and J2-M12 coalescence times bear a striking similarity to carbon-14-based date calculations for certain archaeological sites in the Maritsa river valley and its tributaries, near the city of Nova Zagora, Bulgaria (Nilolova, 2002). These...
Thracians inhabited parts of the ancient provinces: Thrace, Moesia, Macedonia, Dacia, Scythia Minor, Sarmatia, Bithynia, Mysia, Pannonia, and other regions on the Balkans and Anatolia.
Sikora et al. published a new paper comparing the genome of two 2,500-year-old Iron Age Thracians (P192-1 and K8) with Ötzi (Chalcolithic Alps), Gök4 and ajv70 (Neolithic Sweden), brana1 (Mesolithic Spain) and Swedish hunter-gatherers. The admixture comparison is particularly interesting. The...
That's a good point ,but i wouldn't go that far, at least regarding the Romanian language. It's likely that the Thracians absorbed some proto-Italic tribes who were left behind. See Thracian"romphaia",cognate to Latin "rumpere" (to break). From the archaeological point of view, Wallachia (Monteoru culture is the most proposed horizon for an "autohtonous"Thracian culture spreaded to Moldavia ...
The strongest correlation of E-V13 is with the Daco-Thracian ethnolinguistic group and its expansion, influences and migrations in Europe. This being effectively confirmed by both ancient and modern DNA evaluations. The only open question is how E-V13 became the main lineage of the Daco-Thracians and when and how exactly it spread to other regions since the Urnfield period. That's where the ...