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{{Infobox language
| name        = Illyrian
| nativename  = Илирјански јазик
| region      = Balkans
| era         = Ancient; reconstructed in modern times
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2        = Balto-Slavic
| fam3        = Slavic
| fam4        = South Slavic
| script      = Cyrillic, Latin
}}

'''Illyrian''' ({{lang-cu|Илирјански јазик}}, ''Ilirjanski jazik'') is a reconstructed South Slavic language, closely related to Slovene, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian. It is characterized by the loss of the Proto-Slavic /g/ (marked in writing with an apostrophe ’, representing either a silent position or a glottal stop). The language preserves a rich system of nominal and pronominal declension and a fully inflected verb system.