Re: Albanian Toponyms -> showing that Albanians was in today Albani

From: pielewe
Message: 37648
Date: 2005-05-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,

WRV had written:

>
> >
> >
> > - South Romanian and Albanian survived in areas where there were
no
> > agriculturalists at all or too few to prevail linguistically,
owing
> > to the mountainous character of the terrain (Pindus, Albania).
>




Then "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>
>
> on this scenario, would you please be so kind and explain us how a
such
> population
> living far away from Danube will have a native word for that
fluvium?
>


I feel that that is a very minor problem compared with all the
problems the scenario solves, or at least addresses properly. Note
that it is not really true that Romanian has a native name, it has a
native variety or extention of a name that is present in all
surrounding Slavic languages.


W.