--- Abdullah Konushevci <
a_konushevci@...>
wrote:
> On which bases we should assume that Albanian
> developed from Dacian
> and not from Illyrian.
****GK: On Piotr's authority. Since I am not a
linguist, but a mediaeval textologist and political
theorist, I have to fall back on someone else's
expertise. So far as the argument has developed I find
his views more persuasive than yours. So if you have
any "big guns" now's the time to bring them out. I
have no prejudice against Albanian deriving from
Illyrian if that's the way the evidence points.*****
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,
****GK: I know of Illyrians in Macedonia, but what is
your evidence for Macedonian being part of a "South
Illyrian" group?****
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