Messapic language
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Messapic is an extinct Paleo-Balkanic language of the Indo-European language family once spoken by the Iapygian peoples – the Calabri and Salentini, the Peucetians, and the Daunians – in an area that
3rd–2nd century BC Messapic inscription
Southern Samnium and northern Apulia were major regions of Iapygian-Italic linguistic contact
Messapians
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The Messapians were an Iapygian tribe who inhabited Salento, a region in what is now southern Italy, in classical antiquity. Two other Iapygian tribes, the Peucetians and the Daunians, inhabited centr
Messapic language
…Paleo-Balkanic language of the Indo-European language family once spoken by the Iapygian peoples – the Calabri and Salentini (known collectively as the Messapians), the Peucetians, and the Daunians – in an area that roughly coincided with the modern region of Apulia, in the southeastern Italian Peninsula. Messapic…
Messapian ceramics in Archaeological Museum of Oria.