From: george knysh
Message: 46914
Date: 2007-01-10
>****GK: Can any of you cite ANY classical authors (or
>
> alexandru_mg3 schrieb:
> >
> >
> > --- 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
>
>
> how about 500 BC? At least this is what V. Pârvan
> thinks when he
> speaks about the big getic expansion which reached
> even the Adriatic
> Sea. It appears that some archeological aspects
> sustains unexpected
> some linguistics observations.
>
> Alex
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