[tied] Re: Romanian Rhotacism and the Iranian Influence

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
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> > The Albanians where already more or less in their
> > current location
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> ****GK: Only if you assume that Albanians result from
> a fusion of Illyrians and Dacians, with the latter
> providing most of the linguistic elements of the
> resulting ethnos. There is no evidence of a Dacian
> presence in Albania ca. 0 CE.*****
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You are wrong here: I already posted 'Thermidava' attested by
Ptolemeus new Skodra in sec. I-II CE together with a list of Dacian
toponims presented in the area

George, the linguistic Facts showed us that the Greek Loans are older
in Albanian that the Latin Loans. You like it or not: but this fact
is sufficient to situate the Proto-Albanians in the vicinity of
Greeks before 0CE.

Marius