Recent content by Thrako_Illyrian

Also according to Matzinger the town of Drisht in Northern Albania which changed from 'Drivastum' to 'Drisht' does not follow Albanian changes despite it changed like pretty similar to places like Astibos(Shtip), Naissos(Nish), Scupi(Shkup) , in this case the town of Viciana in Kosovo (known in...

Again, let me clarify a bit better of what I meant what this Matzinger is claiming if you look at some of his work in 2009 - 2016 etc Matzinger claims 'Sharr' and 'Shkoder' do not follow Albanian phonetic laws and that Sc / Sk must of eventually entirely changed into 'h' using, in which he...

''See van Wijk, 'Taalkunde gegevens'; quotation from p. 71. The modern dialect of Serbo-Croat which borders Macedonian and Bulgarian territory, the 'Timok-Prizren' dialect, does have some transitional features; but research has shown that it picked them up only after the medieval expansion of...

'' As Papazoglu notes, most ancient sources classify Dardanians as Illyrians. Her reasons for rejecting this identification in a later essay, 'Les Royaumes', are obscure. There were Thracian names in the eastern strip of Dardania, but Illyrian names dominated the rest; Katicic has shown that...

Btw, in his newer book 'Die Illyrer', from what I understood when I read the pages I got to read and I might be wrong about this, he does not seem to say directly that Albanian is not Illyrian he simply claims ''There is no continuity'' and ''Two different'' languages based on some extremely...

Even the name 'Viciana' (Romans added the suffix 'um') Suffix 'um' in Illyrian toponym is actually of Roman influence and was not originally Illyrian, in Kosovo which has turned into 'Vushtrri' show a similar development like 'Sharr' , Shtip, 'Nish' , 'Shkoder' and many others...

I kept reading the paper I linked above and I understand now more of what he means, some of his claims are opposed by other scholars such as Radoslav Katicic, so lets go through some of the things he claims so far in this paper He claims the name Shkoder could not of developed from Albanian...

I haven't gotten to read through everything since some of the pages aren't available. And I'm certainly not going to waste my money on some useless information I could get anywhere else. But here is just to show you some mistakes this guy has made from earlier work...

You are using Kosovo Serbs who are migrants from all over the place during the Ottoman and Yugoslav period, and who show high R1a and I2a, together with what most likely was a EV-13 bottleneck of Kosovo Albanians to claim some EV-13 domination in the region. Many Kosovo Serbs aren't natives in...

Serbs did not even conquer the region until the late 12th century. Under the law of Dusan before the Ottoman period there was even a marriage against Vlachs. Many Kosovo Serbs are also migrants from other areas like Montenegro, Serbia proper, Hercegovina, Northern Albania. Many were also settled...

I google translated this from an Italian book about the toponym Dimale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimale So we basically don't have a single text of Illyrian, the only thing we have is either in Greek or in Latin and in Latin the names appear with an 'Un' and 'Um' . In Greek they appear...

I basically just read through the book of pages that were available and nothing special. They claim Albanian doesn't follow phonetic changes and they have used Weigand as a source who claimed Albanian to be Thracian basically. They provide no compelling evidence. They argue based on few words...

You can basically read his book for free here https://books.google.com/books?id=0N9SEAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y . There are some free chapters, if you speak or know German, you can go straight to the linguistic part.

Suffix 'um' can be lost in a language like 'us' 'as' or any other given thing, one can also observe many different onomastics among Illyrian. Some of these seem to of also come from Roman and Greek influence. So which is the correct form according to mr.Matzinger DiMALUM or DIMALITAN...

In the tribal areas of Northern Albania, J2b2-L283 is very common reaching 30%-40%. And you cannot really claim that these are cherry picked results. Kosovo might be a different case. I don't know. They should find households in Western Kosovo who have no tribal affiliations and test them...