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And for certain other items, recently it has been proposed that the direction is dialectal Latin > Albanian, undercutting any claim to Dacian origins.

Also, there is very little evidence, perhaps none, that the Thracian language and the Dacian were closely related languages.

This is like reading about a Dacian complaining about the Romans using the term Mare Nostrum.

But in all Matzinger's work he doesn't actually claim that Dacian words aren't to be found in Romanian language, is it?

No, the idea that a certain layer of Romanian words comes from Dacian is superseded.

The Dacian capital was razed and vast swathes of the population sold into slavery.

Romania is and was a fairly advanced place since at least Dacian times (Romans didn't spend the effort to invade it for nothing).

Unfortunately, Dacian is likely to remain one of the least known ancient languages.

Moldavia, including the Republic of Moldavia which was part of the Dacian Province, and Scythia, had a stronger slavic influence and is reflected in people's looks.

I agree than despite traditional claims, there is no known relationship between Dacian and any of the words shared by Albanian and Romanian.

> No, the idea that a certain layer of Romanian words comes from Dacian is superseded.

There has been a theory that Dacian might have been more closely related to the Baltic languages, which could have been possible based on its position in space and time.

Is there evidence of actual active Roman "eradication" of Dacian history?

Like I have already said, I completely agree with what you have said that there is no role for “Dacian” in the Albanian–Romanian lexical isoglosses.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, Thracian has been conclusively shown to represent a different branch of Indo-European than Albanian, so the idea of “Thracian/Dacian” playing a role in similarities between Albanian and Romanian is very out of date.

My original post up above aimed to emphasize that the contemporary consensus within linguistics – though it is only very slowly trickling into popular-science publications – does not see a role for “Dacian” in the Albanian–Romanian lexical isoglosses, and that has some important consequences for the reconstruction of Balkan linguistic history.

Granted, that similarity between how Romanian and Albanian sound is most likely caused by our common Thracian/Dacian substrate.

Dacian and its phoneme inventory are much less known than any of those languages.

The Dacian's would be a persistent problem for the Roman's until their eventual conquest by the Emperor Trajan over 150 years later.