From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 22462
Date: 2003-06-02
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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