Recent content by Johane Derite

Nice find. Any indications where this sample is from in Akbari? Could it be from Albania? E-Y173822 is more a southern & central Albanian lineage, so this is a particularly interesting sample.

Great work. You should visualise these core groups on a tree diagram if you find the time, so that we can potentially start to try and track these clusters linguistically also. Important to note specifically for the Dardanian problem, that the general cliche which is highly anachronistic is...

In response to the following from Riverman: If Riverman's argument is correct, then there are linguistic implications for this also. To put it crudely: the Daco-Thracian linguistic branch of Indo-European could technically be more diverse than the Hellenic branch, with some dialects within the...

Which archaeological culture would you tie z5018 with if you dont think its belegis then?

Like I said the Akbari Ev13s change everything, and this is a quantum leap in our understanding. The Albanian relationship to these Ev13 samples is undeniable obviously, only reason im not outright just accepting and trying to reason for the dardani route is to synthesise with some linguistic...

I'm in agreement that the akbari E-V13s have definitely changed the landscape for sure. There is no going back now on many fronts. My reasoning so far is as follows: Belegis-gava II channelled ware spread all over Dardania and into Albania in Late Bronze Age. That's one huge E-v13 impulse...

This is a really great way to put it that makes the situation clear even for outsiders. Something I would add is that you also touched upon something very important for the Proto-Albanian linguistic question by laying out the phylogenetic diversity differential for Albanian paternities. Namely...

Couple of points: 1. The etymologies of both para and dava are not known, there are theories by linguists, some of which argue for Albanian related forms (weigand for example speculated dava relation to alb. Dhe (earth), some linguist s speculated thrac. Para is related to alb. Farë (seed...

I don't have time with work to add anything substantive but this post from Riverman is really interesting not to share though: "We discussed that before already and it might have been kind of a fringe option before the Akbari samples. But the Akbari samples prove that the Northern E-V13...

Interesting, that neolithic substrate population that was non-greek and non-thracian, potentially the "pelasgian" non-IE linguistic substrate source in greek?

The head author on a public reply stated that he "bets" Dardania is where the Albanian language descends from. So he seems to personally favour the admigration hypothesis from Moesia Superior for actually bringing Albanian.

Factual innacuracy after factual innacuracy. I would recommend looking into what dunning-kruger effect means since you seem to be a cogent example of it. Maybe you read a few twitter posts by someone and now believe yourself to be competent in this subject. Illyrians are known even by those...

Out of all the countless Indo-Europeans of the Balkans that were known as Illyrians, Dardanians, Pannonians, Paeonians, Triballians, Thracians, Dacians, Brygians, Phrygians, Moesians, Getae, and countless more, of all those Balkan Indo-European peoples, the only ones to have had their language...

There's no denying the IBD matching. The relationship is there. And since it's there, there is no reason for there not to be loanwords into Etruscan from Daco-Thracian. Compare the Greek loanwords into Etruscan: It's pretty straightforward. Especially since there was trade. It's unlikely to...

Fascinating, a weatlhy Thracian in a tumuli from a princely grave near the Struma river bore the name "Ulk". This is linguistically significant because this Thracian has the exact same name as one of the earliest attested Albanian names that is inherited from proto-indo-european (meaning Wolf)...