Shame on you Dick. Don't you recognize that Albanians are Italians with a different dialect?
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No evidence that Thracians inhabited the western Balkans first. It was probably just some Paleo-Balkanic cultures dating back to the late Bronze Age or some time around there. Thracians were distinct from Illyrians. Albanians aren't Epirotes/Hellenic, that's just an odd claim. Albanian clearly stem from one of the non-Hellenic Paleo-Balkan groups.
I don't know which languages Illyrians used, but I am absolutely sure that Thracians (Ras) spoke Balto-Slavic languages and that Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians who are genetically homogeneous are those people.
Cause Thracian language is documented to some degree, Illyrian isn't.
Thracians didn't speak a Slavic language like the South Slavs, even claiming that they spoke a Balto-Slavic language is a dubious claim. Their language showed similarities to Balto-Slavic, but they weren't enough to make a direct connection. Besides, Thracian was closer to Baltic rather than Slavic going by what linguists have suggested. South Slavs are Slavs, it's in the name.
I've seen Thracian language word-list... that's our language... 60 everyday words. You've seen it as well.
Plus all those Historians Ovid, Strabon, Herodotus, Chalkondyles, Georgious Gemistus Pletho.
Georgios Gemistus Pletho 1450 when Empress Helena Dragas died said: "Our Dear Empress was Thracian women"
Also veneration of Thracian Horsemen (that became St. George) is the most popular among the South Slavs.
I don't know what other evidence is needed.
MDLP 23
Using 1 population approximation:
1 Serb_Serbia_ @ 4.891865
2 Montenegrian_ @ 5.123010
3 Serb_BH_ @ 5.771439
4 Croat_ @ 6.442669
5 Bosnian_ @ 6.492367
6 Hungarian_Budapest_ @ 7.316673
7 Macedonian_ @ 7.452105
8 Austrian_ @ 7.992090
9 Bulgarian_ @ 7.996101
10 Hungarian_ @ 8.636503
11 Croat_BH_ @ 8.641397
12 Slovenian_ @ 8.930889
13 German_East_ @ 9.651109
14 Czech_ @ 10.056395
15 German-Volga_ @ 10.660328
16 South_German_ @ 11.325769
17 Gagauz_ @ 12.901126
18 Dutch_ @ 13.012399
19 North_German_ @ 13.019816
20 Slovak_ @ 13.085639
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Balt_ +50% Italian_Abruzzo_ @ 2.803852