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What language the Pelasgians spoke I cannot say definitely. But if one may judge by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the Tyrrheni 1 in the city of Creston —who were once neighbors of the people now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian—
What language the Pelasgians spoke I cannot say definitely. But if one may judge by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the Tyrrheni 1 in the city of Creston —who were once neighbors of the people now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian—
[2] and of the
Pelasgians who inhabited
Placia and
Scylace on the
Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia
Hellespont
, who came to live among the
Athenians, and by other towns too which were once
Pelasgian and afterwards took a different name: if, as I said, one may judge by these, the
Pelasgians spoke a language which was not
Greek.
[3] If, then, all the
Pelasgian stock spoke so, then the Attic nation, being of
Pelasgian blood, must have changed its language too at the time when it became part of the
Hellenes. For the people of
Creston
and
Placia have a language of their own in common, which is not the language of their neighbors; and it is plain that they still preserve the manner of speech which they brought with them in their migration into the places where they live.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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