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Ok, i just now got it, i misunderstood his writing because it is a bit broken. He refers to the Dardano-Moesian as the "northern" cluster, whereas I misunderstood it at first as referring to the "north albanian". mat-diber-mirdite cluster. Yes you are correct, he is claiming that Moesia is a...

Interesting, I'll copy paste some of Gjergji's other relevant comments here for those that don't have Fb: Gjergj Bojaxhi: "All, 99.9%, of the western part of montenegro and Albania from Shkodra to Vlora is populated today from hinterland. We have zero results to point to a male line in this...

Great post, something to possibly support this is also the earliest king of the Taulanti called "Galabrus" which has a clear parallel with the Dardani tribe Galabroi. Galabrus is said to have invaded Macedonia in the 7th century BC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaurus

To be honest with you, I'm impressed with myself too. 5 years ago, with very little information relative to now, especially linguistics, and with a lot of baggage from the general propaganda that permeates our cultural discourse, and yet I was clearly seeking out the truth with a spirit of...

Yeah, it doesn't, since all the arguments about proto-Albanian (low greek loans, symbiosis with proto-romanians, etc) still hold true. It changes nothing for determining its pre-slavic and pre roman position.

What makes no sense is that paper. They don't even make an argument or present any evidence archaeologically or dna-wise for their argument that albanian is some neolithic language. Regardless, it changes nothing with regard to figuring out which language of the balkans albanian comes from.

Albanian. Man [Blackberry] from proto-Albanian. *mant- is argued to be related to: Dacian. Mantia [Blackberry] Also: Dacian. Mozula for Thyme which some connect with: Albanian. Modhull [vetchling] Bessian. Asa with Albanian. Ashe [Holly] (Dioscorides' De Materia Medica)

I think that the dresses could still be related to a shared common origin as it is argued to be ancient and have relatives in the mediterranean. But as for the argument that this would de facto mean albanian is illyrian, obviously this is incorrect. This represents my early days when I was still...

I'm really curious which culture they argue Albanian to descend from cause so far it doesn't make much sense.

I think it will get settled within 10 years. Considering just the last 10 years how astronomically the question has progressed. We didnt know j2b-l283, E-V13, etc, even existed. As we get more autosomal, paternal, samples, we will have an even clearer picture. Likewise, linguistics will also...

Unironically though, once it is settled, it will be a new era

One theory about the origin of the proto-Albanians is that they were among the "Sermesians" led by Kuber in the 600s AD. The Sermesians were mixed balkan locals that had been uprooted and deported to Syrmia (Srem today) by Slavs and Avars. They later moved south led by Kuber as stated in the...

He refers here to Albanian and Slavic as branches of "Carpathian" indo european, hence his use of "Carpathian here took", etc

Mayer, who claimed Slavic was an Albanoid dialect that became Balticised, argued this based on certain sound changes shared with albanian alone. Obviously his scenario of Slavic not being phylogenetically related to Baltic is not possible. However, if his arguments for the sound changes he saw...

R1b-Z2705's most recent common ancestor was ~1450 years ago. This means around ~573 AD. Given that Z2705 is found in both Tosks & Gegës, this is likely to have been a dominant lineage in the Albanian ethnogenesis. Did he live in that yellow zone? http://yfull.com/tree/R-Z2705/ Also, note a new...

Interesting, i wonder if Mayer's crazy theories about Slavic being a balticised pre-albanian (Carpathian Indo European according to him) based on some slavic ks - sk developments that he compared to Albanian sk-> h, were just an artefact of early language contact?

Scholars like Schramm, Wilkes, Hauzinski, etc, point to this zone in central/north-Albania (from Shkumbin almost up to Lezha) that has place names ending in "-esh" (derived from Vulgar Latin. -esis) as being the original zone of settlement of the proto-Albanians in Albania. This area coincides...

If Mat is the oldest Albanian toponym in Albania as argued by Matzinger, then could it have any relation to "Matoas" (said to mean "silty"), one of the old names of the Danube? Could "Matoas" be proto-Albanian? Albanian. Mat [seacoast, riverbank, sandy shore] from IE. *mn̥to

Matzinger's idea is that Mat could be from ie. IE. *mn̥to Since IE. n̥ yields /a/ in Albanian this is plausible. Whereas IE. *mn̥to would have yielded different forms in Illyrian and Messapic: Illyrian. Munt- Messapic. Mant- However, if this proposed etymology is wrong and it is related...

Lafe remarks that we lack unequivocal linguistic evidence of ancient Albanian placenames (that show uniquely Albanian developments like sk > h or sp > f). On Mat : Cabej compared it to Old Irish. math (grit, sand, gravel) in which case Mat would not be an early Albanian toponym. LINK...