Re: [tied] Piotr..your thoughts on....?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael J Smith
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 8:25 PM
> Subject: [tied] Piotr..your thoughts on....?
>
> > Hi Piotr,
> > I apologize if you've been over this in detail in the past, if so

I can

> look in the archives, but exactly how would you say Albanian

derived from

> Dacian geographically speaking?
>
> "Exactly how" is anyone's guess, but if the historical cradle of the
> Albanians was in the highland areas of what are now Kosovo and

northern

> Macedonia, their language may well derive from that of Dacian

colonists and

> evacuees on the right bank of the Danube, in Moesia Superior. There

might

> have been other contributions: for example, the Carpi, according to
> Jordanes, raided Moesia as allies of the Goths in the third

century. But all

> that is highly speculative. The safest bet is that the slightly

Romanised

> Moesian Dacians = Proto-Albanians.
>
> Piotr

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According not only to my view, as geographically, as linguistically,
as archeologically, as historically, as anthropolically, the the
safest and the best bet will be Illyrian = Proto-Albanian.

Konushevci