Paeonian language

Paeonian
Paionian
RegionPaeonia (Modern North Macedonia, northern Greece, south-western Bulgaria)
EthnicityPaeonians
ExtinctLate antiquity
Indo-European
  • (unclassified)
    • Paeonian
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
0iz
GlottologNone

Paeonian,[1] sometimes spelled Paionian, is a poorly attested, extinct language spoken by the ancient Paeonians until late antiquity.

Paeonia was located to the north of Macedon, south of Dardania, west of Thrace, and east of the southernmost Illyrians.

  1. ^ Harry van der Hulst, Rob Goedemans and Ellen van Zanten as ed., A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 311019631X, p. 433.