Re: [tied] Re: Romanian Rhotacism and the Iranian Influence

--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > The Albanians where already more or less in
> their
> > > current location
> > > around 0 CE.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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

****GK: Ptolemy is no guarantee for the existence of
Thermidava in 0 CE. Strabo would be, but it is
precisely Strabo who denies any significant Dacian
presence in Albania at that time. A post-0 Dacian
migration seems more likely, as mentioned above.*****

>
> 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.

****GK: Only their Illyrian component as above.*****




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