Recent content by Olti27

Well proto-albanians were ruled by Latin administration so the low greek loans is the expected result. Same goes for illyrians who were never ruled by the ancient greeks. For example proto-serbs/serbs have lived near albanians for 1400 years, yet they have low if at all albanian loan words. On...

Which haplogroups has Bruzmi claimed as Illyrian? In the part you highlighted Illyrians still retained control up to the Vardar river. Illyrians also retained control of the lake lands up until 334 BC when Cleitus and Glaukia lost to Alexander the Great in the battle of Pelion. That is not a...

Well Malcolm argument against Daco-Thracian theory is not about generic compound words, which every language has and why i called it comparing apples to oranges, but the structure of place names which are incompatible with Albanian. Here is his quote to refresh every ones memory from the book...

Well according to Hammond in his book Migrations And Invasions In Greece And Adjacent Areas, the Illyrians had expanded quite a lot ruling in ancient Macedonia, Peaonia and even expelling the Maedi with archeological finds in Pella and Shtip. He also noted peaceful Illyrian settling throughout...

I don't know what the arguments are on anthrogenica but Appian is a reliable source. You just don't like him because he includes Dardanians among the Illyrians. The confusion of Paeonians/Pannonians is comon in ancient literature. You yourself posted as a source a letter of Julian the Emperor to...

Comparing apples to oranges but let for a moment compare them. Burrmadhi from burri i madh, Gurakuqi from gur i kuq, Kryeziu from krye i zi whence we have Qytet Stalin(Kuçovë) from Qyteti i Stalinit. If it had anything to do with Daco-Thracian we would have had, StalinQytet(stalingrad)...

In the thing you posted, nowhere does Matzinger demonstrate that albanian had a place name structure like Daco-Thracian. He just assumes and invents things. His reasoning is on the level of since albanian and serbian are both indoeuropean than albanian must have been a slavic language. Ancient...

so can we albanians also get in the club of una faccia una razza

It would be interesting to have the DNA of this illyrian GENTIONE (GENTIUS) and his family living in Nish in 5th-6th century. - -

Arm wrestling in romanian and hungarian is called skanderbeg / szkander. The icon is of the Romanian arm wrestling Federation. Skanderbeg must have had a really strong arm for his name to have entered the vocabulary of 2 big nations. In the albanian movie about him there is a scene were...

The Thracians were weak. They didn't manage to conserve neither their language nor their name. Albanian is not a mixed language so there is no point in claiming the legacy of different peoples groups (even though there might be some genetic influence) unless you want to argue that there is a...

Appian, Illyrian wars chapter 1 section 2: Illyrius had six sons, Encheleus, Autarieus, Dardanus, Mædus, Taulas, and Perrhæbus, also daughters, Partho, Daortho, Dassaro, and others, from whom sprang the Taulantii, the Perrhæbi, the Enchelees, the Autarienses, the Dardani, the Partheni, the...

Appian also states that Dardanians are Illyrians.

In the national museum of Albania there is a stone with a swastica and if I remember correctly, chronologically was dated before the late bronze age.

In the Y-DNA subforum there is a thread abaout Albanian origin and DNA. Can we post the genetic related data there and keep this thread mostly focused on linguistic/historical material.