All were fighting for their survival against Roman incursions. Dacians lived west of the Black Sea and were related to or a subgroup of the Thracians. Our sources are Romans, who were not trying preserve details about such “barbarians.” Illyrians were in the western parts of the Balkans (roughly the former Yugoslavia and parts Albania) some of southeast Italy. They were described in an ancient Greek source in the 400s BCE. It seems unlikely they were a unified group with a unified language, but rather described people who inhabited that general region. To a Greek or Roman, an “Illyrian” was someone who lived in that area, not necessarily someone of a specific tribe or language.
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