Editing Pelasgians (section)

==== Minoan ====
According to the Russian historian and linguist [[Igor M. Diakonoff]], the Pelasgians may have been related to the [[Minoan civilization|Minoans]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Diakonoff |first=I. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JU8pegs94uoC&pg=PA317 |title=Early Antiquity |date=28 June 2013 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-14467-2 |page=317 |language=en}}</ref> A number of scholars consider Minoan to be essentially the same language as Pelasgian.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Millar |first=R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NGKJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 |title=Authority and Identity: A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern Age |date=21 July 2010 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-28203-2 |page=39 |language=en |quote=In the Greek islands and possibly also the Peloponnese were speakers of a language scholars sometimes call Minoan, after the great civilization associated with Crete in the second millennium BCE, or Eteo-Cretan. It is probably the language of the Minoan A script, which has largely escaped deciphering. A number of scholars consider this to be essentially the same language as Pelasgian.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Budin |first=Stephanie Lynn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HzeJbz7ybAMC&pg=PA404 |title=The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-537984-6 |pages=404 |language=en}}</ref>