New York Times: Albanian oldest European language.

[blogen]

Proto-romanian is from Europe, evolved in Europe. What about hungarian?

The proto-Romanian is not a language family. For example the Kalmyk language evolved in Europe, the proto-Kalmyk speakers arrived onto the Kuban steppe in the early 17th century and the separation from the other Oirat languages ended in the 20th century only. The Kalmyk is a real European story as the Romanian!



The Hungarian not, since the Hungarian language evolved in the 2nd millenia BC in Western Siberia and our ancestors with their Hungarian language arrived into Europe in the 5th century AD only, when the proto-Romanian story started somewhere in the Balkan.

[Hithaeglir]

I knew the OP was Kurt

[mikhail]

Good because that's what I got from this also.
It's also interesting Raine hasn't been active since the day this article was published. I care about raine's well being, for sure.

Her sock puppet account got banned I think.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

I think they forgot to mention the Basque language, non indo-european language, spoken there long before the indo-european languages

They are still pretending that basque and r1b came to europe recently.

[Albo Fire]

I knew the OP was Kurt

There isn't nothing to laugh cause he provided a true source unlike the former threads about ISIS or BS of this nature.

[Proto-Shaman]

They are still pretending that basque and r1b came to europe recently.

Long after, since the Basque langue presumably the last remains of the Near Eastern Bell Beaker settlers.

Uigurs, Kazakhs, Bashkirs, some other peoples of Siberia, Central Asia and the Urals descend in part from the ancient R1b1 branch, and by now retain the same haplogroup for 16,000 years. Comparison of R1b haplotypes of the Uigurs on the one hand, and Chuvashes, Bulgars, and Hungarians on the other, shows that the Uigurs usually have the more ancient subgroup R1b1b1, which predominantly remained in Asia. The common ancestor of both Asian and European haplotypes lived in Asia 16000 years ago. That apparently is the minimum lower time limit for the Proto-Turkic languages. The R1b haplotypes in the Balkans have "12" in that marker in 50% of the cases, in Italy 27%. In Slovenia that parameter is 20%, with the "age" of the common ancestor 4250 ± 600 years. All these are a branch of the Turks, "Kurganians", "ancient Pit Gravers", that crossed from the Eastern European Plain either directly around the Black Sea to the Balkans, and further on to the the Apennines, or through the Asia Minor. The others, as was noted, went to Europe via Anatolia through the Middle East and then on through the North Africa on the way to the Pyrenees. That was a Beaker Culture.

[Ujku]

Anyone knows anything about the theory that the Albanian language may have roots from the Sumerian language?

[♥ Lily ♥]

I thought that Basque is the oldest European language..? I've read articles that stated Basque is the most ancient language in Europe.

[Herr Abubu]

Anyone knows anything about the theory that the Albanian language may have roots from the Sumerian language?

Yeah, it's delusional bs.

[Laberia]

Anyone knows anything about the theory that the Albanian language may have roots from the Sumerian language?

There are no connection between Albanian language and Sumerian.