Re: [tied] Veneti

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Some
> linguists still believe in the Illyrian theory, others try to connect
> Albanian with Dacian and/or Thracian, others, including Eric Hamp,
> prefer to remain agnostic and not to lump Albanian with anything. My
> impression, based, admittedly, on very scarce data, is that Illyrian
> was not a Satem language, and if Messapic, of which we know
> something, was indeed a variety of Illyrian, it could hardly have had
> anything to do with Albanian. Of all the possibilities, I'm most
> sympathetic to the theory that Albanian is most closely related to
> Dacian.
>
> Piotr

Piotr, you said several times you have the feeling Albanian is related
to Dacian. I don't remember tough if you ever showed - in your opinion -
why ? Which are the points which will indicate to someone there should
be a connection between Albanian and Dacian?

Alex