Dacian script
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The Dacian script and alphabet were the system of writing used by the people of Dacia, or present-day Romania, before being replaced by Latin due to being conquered by the Romans during the reign of the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
[edit] Dacian texts written in the Greek and Roman alphabets
The notion that the ancient people of Dacia used a writing system is a certitude at the moment among historians. However, as hypothesised by Romanian historian Hadrian Daicoviciu, the Dacians knew how to use at least the Greek and the Roman alphabets, as shown by the inscriptions found at Sarmizegetusa: Decebalus per Scorilo, the personal name Zyper, the Greek letters from the stone bricks which once composed the wall of the fortress, short inscriptions found in other places, and by many more inscriptions found elsewhere (at Polovragi – ancient Arcina, at Argedava, etc).
[edit] Dacian texts written in unknown scripts
There are a number of as-yet undeciphered scripts found at different places in Romania that are attributed by most to the Dacians. However, very little research has been done on them, mainly because most of the sites are in regions which are not very accessible, and also because for some reason Romanian scientists avoid studying such matters.
One of the most important sites is to be found at Bozioru, Buzău County, though the script can be found in many other places too. This is a sample of such script.
