--- alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
I prefer the testimony of ancient sources to
> the speculations of
> modern scholars. So far I know, the modern scholars
> are these who speak
> about certain "possible" migrations in post-Roman
> times , aren't they? At
> least we agree at this point, so I consider George
> Knysh will never prefer a
> modern speculation about Dacians migrating in
> Albania :-)))))))
*****GK: Dear Alex, I take it you appreciate the
difference between preferring the witness of ancient
sources to modern speculations where there is a
choice. Now where there are no ancient sources the
situation is different. IF the theory that modern
Albanian developed from ancient Dacian is correct,
then we must try to explain how the proto-Albanians
arrived in Albania, given that the language of the
land in recorded Roman times was not Dacian but
Illyrian. So in that context there is hardly anything
untoward in offering the hypothesis that the
proto-Albanians arrived at some point between Roman
times and whenever the historical Albanians become
known (11th century?). This would not deny the
possibility of prior infiltrations. And it would not
deny that the new arrivals mixed with the older
population and in time (when they became more
numerous) imposed their language on them. That's just
one scenario of course.
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