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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>I suggest that the Albanians, pushed by the southern Slavs, moved
>into Illyria about the 6th or 7th century, absorbing and superseding
>provincial Latin.
Such a late movement of Proto-Albanians to South is in contracdiction
with the following fact:
Albanian mok&r shows a Doric Greek Loan reflecting Doric Greek a: >
Albanian o => So a contact with Doric Greek before PAlb a: > PAlb o =>
Before Roman Arrival in Balkans (when Latin a: > PAlb a)
Maybe the Pro-Albanians weren't on the sea coast (this is almost
sure) but they were already in the Doric Greek vicinity at least around
300BC
In addition based on Pre-Romanian a: > PRom. a > Rom a
The dialectal split between Proto-Albanians and Albanoid(Dacian)-
Substratum of Romanian is older than 300 BC
Marius