sentences:  During the classical period, enclaves under that name survived in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete, and other regions of the Aegean.Populations identified as "Pelasgian" spoke a language or languages that at the time Greeks identified as "barbaric", though some ancient writers nonetheless described the Pelasgians as Greeks.A tradition also survived that large parts of Greece had once been Pelasgian before being Hellenized.