From: alex
Message: 27339
Date: 2003-11-17
> Some words in Romanian come from the non-Latin substrate virtuallyYou avoided any answer. I meant about Lautgesetze and not any Thracian
> indistinguishable from Proto-Albanian. They stand apart precisely
> because they are not Latin (as opposed to the bulk of Romanian
> vocabulary). Of course they are more archaic than Modern Albanian
> because they were absorbed from an older stage of Albanian. This
> doesn't mean that Romanian itself derives from that substratal
> language, or that your "Thracian space" fantasy makes any sense.
>
> Piotr