sentences:  These elements have led to a second theory that Pelasgian was to some degree an Anatolian language, or that it had areal influences from Anatolian languages.Vladimir I. Georgiev, a Bulgarian linguist, asserted that the Pelasgians spoke an Indo-European language and were, more specifically, related to the Thracians.Georgiev also proposed, relying on a sound-shift model, that "pelasgoi" was a cognate of a Proto-Indo-European root and Greek Πέλαγος "pelagos" "sea".