Re: [tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>>> while the similarity of reconstructed
>> Proto-Albanian to the Satem substrate in Romanian makes a connection
>> with Dacian likely, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> Well, I don't believe in the Daco-Roman continuity story, and I think
> that Romanian (i.e. the Romance dialect cluster including
> Daco-Romanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian and Aromanian)
> developed South of the Danube, i.e. somewhere either in Illyria or in
> Thracia. The fact that Romanian is a Romance language, and that it
> shares a substrate with Albanian, both point to Illyria rather than
> Thrace (Thrace, if I'm not mistaken, belongs rather within the Greek
> half of the Empire). The Bulgarian, rather than Serbian, Slavic
> adstrate may represent a secondary spread into Thrace (from
> Macedonia), and then to North of the Danube.
>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Thrace propria dictam is excluded since it meant the theritory begining
south of the Balkan mountains. I wonder what you understand trough
"Illyria" since this was -at least in the Roman times- a vaste
theritory; the Dalmatian theritory should be excluded too.
As for the South branche of Arom. & Co. I see them as migrating there in
the X century. There are hystorical data which seems to sustain this
opinion. Of course I exclude here the Timocens (the inhabitant of Valley
of Timoc) which appear to never moved from that region and speaks Drom ,
not Arom)

alex