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The peasant (what fshatar means in Albanian) is correct on one thing though, there is nothing typical or standard about E-V13, it is extraordinary through and through. The tmrca expansion pattern it has shows that multiple different assimilation events don't account for its spread.

One of the sharp insights of Schramm's was his focus on what he called the twofold "miracle" of Albanian, not only that it is the only non-greek balkan indo-european language to survive, but also that Albanian Christianity survived, which is often overlooked either due to secular/communist...

"The history we are tracing leads us toward a reconstructable beginning that falls in the 4th century, which, due to a darkness in the 5th century, cannot be further clarified. All that can be seen are two distinct fates. In the years 457/474 in Byzantium, a Bess named Leo I sat on the...

"The south of present-day Albania must be excluded, because the name of the main river, Vjosa, in Albanian could have emerged in this form only through the mediation of Slavic. This would have occurred at a later time, when the Albanian intervocalic shift of s > sh was no longer active, because...

"Our attention should also be given to those who remained in the homeland. In all likelihood, everything suggests the opposite of the idea that all the Bessi would have migrated: in the manner that the issue arises with the Germanic tribes, as organized military communities accustomed to...

E-v13 seems to be higher among palestinian christians vs palestinian muslims where it seems to be negligible, this guys commentary is nonsense otherwise: https://x.com/ByblianKing/status/1917556407680770513?t=ANXsU6cyWnsrLoSzuJX8cA&s=19

As evidenced by the autosomals Riverman mentioned, they must have been assimilated fairly well. Its highly improbable they left a trace, but sometimes toponyms can survive very long in regions, some in europe from the bronze age and such. So on the very small chance that for some reason they...

What this shoud provoke is a probing of these french regions to see if there is any sort of old Albanoid linguistic influence that can be gleaned from old toponyms and anthroponyms. If such a signal were to be found that would be quite a breakthrough on a lot of fronts...

Riverman made a a very very interesting speculation about a possible proto-Albanian or Albanoid related migration to France that i think should be posted here also: " YFull seems to do something about the ancient DNA samples again, finally. Another interesting assignment, this time downstream...

And of course if 1/4th of pre-slavic proto-albanian ancestry was MENA we should expect a huge antique MENA linguistic influence in Albanian also given that such a huge percentage is the highest we find for slavic ancestry in Albanians and the slavic linguistic influence in Albanian is well...

The Illyrian geniuses at genarchavist are now pushing models of supposed ancestors of Albanians as 1/4th MENA 3/4th Illyrian. This makes sense for Kelmendasi as he has a semitic paternal origin and so has posted in other times things exxagerating mena influence in the balkans (i.e. he is...

An interesting theory from Radu Craciun concerning the Dacian prophet Zalmoxis: He argues that "zalmos," a Thracian gloss meaning "‘animal fur, a skin" is related to Albanian. thelmë "cloth, piece of fabric" He argues this comes from Proto-Albanian *tsalma, rooted in Indo-European *k̂el-...

I started this hobby 100% fully into the illyrian hypothesis, but mainly because that's all i'd ever been exposed to growing up. But as years passed the thing which tipped me over into sharing more overlooked, even if sometimes not fully fleshed out, thracian/dacian/etc theories was seeing how...

Riverman, you should avoid the albanian discussion thread on genarchivist as kelmendasi and corrigendum/bruzmi and the rest of them have a group chat and collude together to mass report posts and comment in unison to create a pretext for banning you. They are running the script on you already if...

"I have the impression that for such transitions in the southern dialect of Albanian, there is a lack of any support. On the contrary: let us take the name Bistrica in southern Albania, a tributary of the Shkumbin, which with its /i/ in the first syllable, representing the Slavic /y/, indicates...

"The Bessi and Vlachs were at this time the easternmost members of Western, Latin Christianity. However, in the 7th century, ties with Byzantium became even more significant. A peripheral region of that Western world, where Latin culture held sway, transformed into a peripheral zone of Eastern...

Interesting argumentation from a new paper from 2022 by linguist Radu Craciun that puts Thracian back on the menu for being Albanoid, and Albanian being descended from a Thracian or Thracoid language: "Two toponyms often mentioned in this context are Naissus (Niš) and Astibos (Shtip), both...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250149926_Rectangular_grave_vessels_and_stamped_ceramics_from_the_roman_period_in_the_Central_Balkans_A_contribution_to_the_study_of_prehistoric_traditions_during_the_Roman_period Another interesting new Albanoid toponym argued for by Radu Craciun also...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250149926_Rectangular_grave_vessels_and_stamped_ceramics_from_the_roman_period_in_the_Central_Balkans_A_contribution_to_the_study_of_prehistoric_traditions_during_the_Roman_period

Interestingly, the village "Gela" in the Rhodopes, is proposed by linguist Radu Craciun to be related to Albanian. Gjellë (food, life) / gjëllij (to live, to reside) This was loaned into Aromanian as ghelã Also related to the above is Albanian. Gjëllime (Remnants of dry grass scattered here...