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Concerning the Indo-Europeanisation question with Albanian particularities: The Albanian inherited kinship terms (some of them are from either Ottoman times or Roman times so those have to be discarded) show a drastic difference from every other IE branch. Albanian either lost words entirely...

It's also plain wrong and missing countless Daco-thracian examples within Dardania and even Illyria. Also note how he doesn't mark his sources and page numbers, it's just his personal whims presented as data. He is a cheap clownshow

I forgot entirely about that conference presentation with Gavranovic. There he actually did argue for full satem Daco-Thracians vs Full Centum Illyrians, and a messapic half satem half centum group in the middle that Albanian and Armenian also belonged to. There were many odd things about this...

As for the indo-europeanisation question, if you look at "bur-" names that appear among both Thracians and Dacians (in tribal names like Buri, Buridensi, personal names like Buris, Burilas, Burebista, Mukaburi and toponyms like Buridava, Burikodava,) these are one of the most attested names we...

Its overstated and not actually understood / contextualised properly by the parties usually parroting it. Firstly, it has become a sort of canon that there is a messapic-albanian connection among the parties that push the Illyrian position, but it is never presented with the context of what...

Hillurian aka Fshatar/Nik is still going on about "submissiveness" (seems to be a common theme with him, something to analyse psychologically there) and making sure to project his resentment onto E-V13... Here he claims that South Slavs have E-V13 because they "mixed with roman danubian plebs...

A new stage has been reached where the resentment of E-V13 from the J2b-L283 crowd (Hillurian aka Fshatar/Nik and co) has now led to them generating fantasies about submissiveness of Thracians (a proxy for their E-V13 resentment). To be clear this claim about "Thracian submissiveness" is a...

Albanian archaeologist Luan Perzhita just published an article in an Albanian newspaper Nacional claming that Fushë-Kosova has been inhabited by Albanians since 6000BC... This is promoting some new book of his about Fushë-Kosova. The absurdity of this is that on the cover of his book he...

That's the same tmrca as R1b-Z2705, maybe her mtdna group moved to Albania together with Z2705

fantastic

I just remembered this is one of the subjects for which Kelmendasi over at Genarchivist banned me for. I wonder, if he could, would he ban Michiel de Van from publishing this 2026 Basel study that says Albanian shares more lexemes with Daco-Romanian than any other Balkan Latin variety...

To further tie into some aspects of the University of Basel project here: Words for God in the Balkan Romance languages: Standard Romanian (Daco-Romanian, spoken in Romania and Moldova): Dumnezeu (most common and standard form; pronounced roughly "doo-mneh-ZEH-oo"). Dumnezău (a dialectal or...

So from the new data dump I went looking for my mtdna, which is pretty rare. Of the 10,000 samples, only 37 were u1a1a, of those 37 only 22 had Y calls also. This haplo has a 9000TMRCA acc to Yfull, so I don't know if we can reliably extrapolate anything, however there were potentially some...

Update on The University of Basel's Department of Ancient Civilisations research project "The Albanian Language in Antiquity": I posted about this project when it first started in 2022 when I was still running Albhistory, but I thought I'd do an update considering it's projected to be completed...

You may find this interesting/relevant. Russian linguist/scholar Oleg Trubachyov argued that the toponyms Dniepr & Dniestr entered Slavic through Dacian (Highlighted in green). He argued that if it was just a directly Iranic etymology that sound form doesn't match and that Dacian mediation...

I don't have any particular in depth knowledge of the toponymy of these regions specifically beyond toponyms I've mentioned before in the thread. The name "Moldova" itself has been argued to be Dacian origin as in Mol (possibly related to "Mal" as in Dacia Maluensis or Albanian. Mal) + Dova (as...

Paleorevenge shared an interesting paper about a pretty clearly Albanoid toponym in Moesia of Berakela related to Albanian. Bërrakë [muddy pool, pond, swamp] "Abstract: This study deals with the epithet and ktetic Βερακεληνός, Berakelian on a votive plaque, dedicated to Apollo and Asclepius...

This dishonest labelling firstly is done mostly for R1b-Z2103 as a whole, despite it being found in Thrace and the Carpathian basin, routinely the people you know I'm talking about equate it with Illyrian. With CTS1450, we know that it has shown up in Macedonia, and as you now also agree, shows...

With the Gomolava samples being released, "teapan" over at anthrogenica is arguing that 4 of the males tested are assigned to: https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-BY20217/ If this assignment is correct then there are potentially some relevant implications for what was being discussed here the last...

What do you mean by Albanian origin? Are you saying this geographically as in these branches showing up from Albania or just from Albanians? The sheer ratio with how many Bulgarians show up with one single ~1800year old R1b branch (Z2705), that as you agree is key to Albanian ethnogenesis, is...