From: alex
Message: 46913
Date: 2007-01-10
>how about 500 BC? At least this is what V. Pârvan thinks when he
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.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