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Messapian (also known as Messapic) is an extinct Indo-European language of South-eastern Italy, once spoken in the regions of Apulia and Calabria. It was spoken by the three Iapygian tribes of the region the Messapians, the Dauni and the Peucetii. The language, a centum language, has been preserved in about 300 inscriptions dating from the 6th to the 1st century BC. Messapian may have been an Illyrian language. The Illyrian languages were spoken mainly on the other side of the Adriatic Sea. The link between Messapian and Illyrian is based mostly on personal names found on tomb inscriptions and on classical references, since hardly any traces of the Illyrian language are left. The Messapian language became extinct after the Roman Empire conquered the region and assimilated the inhabitants.
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