Scholars have since come to use the term "Pelasgian", somewhat indiscriminately, to indicate all the autochthonous inhabitants of the Aegean lands before the arrival of the Greeks a number of other recent theories as to their nature are also discussed below. There is also a theory suggesting that the Philistines or Peleset of the ancient Levant were connected with the Pelasgians. Among the nations for whom Pelasgian descent has been claimed are Albanians, and Romanians. Whether the Pelasgian language was pre-Indo-European or not, and the extent to which it was a single language or not, are modern disputes that are colored by contemporary nationalist issues. However, it is agreed that Pelasgians had spoken a "barbaric" (non-Greek) language. The ancient Greek references to the Pelasgians are confusing. Pelasgós) to refer to groups of people who preceded the Hellenes and still dwelt in several locations in mainland Greece, Crete, and other regions of the Aegean, as neighbors of the Hellenes, into the 5th century. Ancient Greek writers used the name Pelasgians (Greek: Pelasgoí, s.
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