From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 30534
Date: 2004-02-03
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
*****GK: If we assume that Albanian developed from Dacian, and
Romanian from Balkan Latin, we have of course to ask ourselves how
long (and where) did Dacian survive, when (and where) did it
become "Albanian", and when did Balkan Latin metamorphose into
Romanian. As to the latter there have already been discussions on
this list (partly in connection with Romanian ecclesiastical
vocabulary, some of it undoubtedly going back to the IVth c./but as
what, inherited Balkan Latin?/. As to the former I confess that I
don't really know. I have no evidence to indicate that Dacian was in
use on the territory of contemporary Albania in Roman times, so I
have to assume that if Albanian comes from Dacian, it must have
migrated from east to west at some point in time.*****
[AK]
On which bases we should assume that Albanian developed from Dacian
and not from Illyrian. And, who can assure us that Illyrian and
Dacian were not just two dialects of the so-called South-Illyrian
group: Messpian, Albanian, maybe Macedonian, besides of North-
Illyrian: Venetian and Thracian. Concordances between Romanian and
Albanian speaks much more that Dacian and Illyrian were, indeed, two
dialects: rhotacism of intervocalic /ll/ in Romanian and of /n/ in
Tosk dialect is common phonetical phenomenon and common inherited
lexicon from of fields of life .
If the cradle of Illyrians was Panonia, I can't find any reason why
Dacian should be so much different language of Illyrian.
But, before all, as you claim there is no evidence to indicate that
Dacian was in use on the territory of contemporary Albania in Roman
time.