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You know that I disagree, but we'll see in the years to come which side will be right I imagine

That's like 3 midgets getting together and going up to Lebron James boasting that they're taller than him if they stand on each other's shoulders. You make my case for me when you need to combine multiple unrelated haplogroups that had different histories to try and equal the demographic...

That's a pretty weak line of reasoning on a couple of fronts. Actually, exactly the region where IE came from was correctly pinpointed with linguistic analysis 160 years ago. Theodor Benfey in 1868 argued exactly for the steppe region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea as the IE...

I'm in agreement that Albanian isn't a CW complex language, I don't think there is a strong case for that. The Albanian language must descend from a yamnaya group that had a symbiosis with the baltic group, this doesn't mean being part of the same phylogenetic group i.e. being corded ware like...

Iron Age Cinamak cluster could potentially be a source of Illyrian paternal component in Albanian, but it cannot have been proto-Albanian speaking. Albanian shares deep relationship with Baltic that is explained by a Proto-Albanian - Baltic symbiosis sometime in the past. While there are...

Albanian is an internally consistent language with its own sound laws and phonology. You cannot import a people into a population and then retroactively impose sound changes that have already finished in the past in the migrant language onto the local host populations language. This can get a...

I hear where you're coming from, it could obviously be possible that this is a coincidental toponym close to where Albanians later appear, but I'm sure you can agree with me that this would be a coincidence. I'm sure you can see how it's pretty fair to assume that Albanopolis is the foundation...

And to complement this, what good is knowing that Albanopolis was founded in the post-roman era if we don't know where it even was yet? From the new paper Maurer & Metalla argue that Albanopolis was most likely further east than all the communist hypotheses that were pushed by the Albanian...

Another interesting point from the paper quoted above. From the new paper on Albanopolis, the analysis of the name itself points to something interesting. Maurer & Metalla argue that the analysis of the name of "Albanopolis" itself points to Albanopolis being a new foundation entirely, not a...

"Y-DNA Piecharts of Illyrians, Thracians, Iron-Age pannonia and Early Medieval Pannonia" By @Maptysk on twitter. A pretty good effort considering the discord crew of 3rd rate Illyrian jihadists that are in his ear trying to orient him towards their fantasies. Whats clear immediately from...

Also the shtokavian dialects lack these substrate/contact features. If albanian was a west balkan language then the west balkan slavic languages should reflect that albanoid influence also, but it doesnt. In some shtokavian you have later medieval loans from albanian or vlach cognates to...

Herren here is also not arguing that the 120+ lexemes in Daco-Romanian are from a substrate but rather that they were loaned from Proto-Albanian into Daco-Romance. A scenario of the lexemes having two different Albanoid sources like you suggest (from Proto-Albanian and a pre-slavicised Hutsul...

I will make a post about latest localisations of Albanopolis as well as some other overlooked points regarding it in the next week or two.

Very interesting new development: This Tuesday at the 43rd edition of the International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature, and Culture held in Prishtina, linguist and researcher Alexander Robert Herren gave a fascinating presentation of his new article about Proto-Albanian. Mostly it...

This here is a very interesting inscription found in Durrës. It writes: PHILETE L TITI BESSI SERVAE In English this means: "Philete, slave of Lucius Titius Bessus." There are a few interesting things to note here. 1. The cognomen "Bessus" denotes Thracoid ancestry 2. The nomen Lucius...

What makes all these Albanian - Daco-Thracian concordances that these linguists argue for interesting also is the particular relevance of Albanopolis to the Albanian ethnogenesis. In Thomas Maurer and Elvana Metalla's latest 2024 study on Albanopolis, their analysis of the earliest inscription...

Some of the interesting implications of the high number of Albanian concordances that appear in the Daco-Thracian languages. For now this collation focuses on concordances only among placenames. This is not an exhaustive list, just collation of a few easier to access linguists. One of the...

I think he is energetic and bright, but has quite a few blindspots that don't add up for me. I will try a bit later when im freer to go deep into it. But the minimising of channelled ware's reach is a result of it not fitting into his construct and seems a bit motivated in this regard.

For some reason twitter links dont seem to work here, so im trying to share via a tiny url. An indepth twitter thread and theory on origins of thracians and dacians that acknowledges ev13 as their main haplo: https://tinyurl.com/yuf3585b

An extraordinary innovative and energetic people. One of the funniest schemes by Peasant and his affiliated group is their lumping together of west balkan and central balkan into one unit of "west-central" balkan as if this magically makes the central balkans a part of the west balkan cultures...