Studies on Albanian language by Dutch linguist

[Joker]

Here is a study on the Albanian language done by a Dutch linguist

https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/doc/SQI-INT-001.pdf (This is a document that highlights the key points)

This is a a collection of all the videos where they talk more about it: https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/lng-sqi.html

It is hard to say where exactly Albanian originated, one thing is for sure that it derives from an Ancient Balkan language. They seem to support the Dardania region or somewhere there and a more inland origin of the Balkans like Noel Malcolm. Although they mention the whole Albanoi and Arbanon theory something Noel Malcolm for example rejects.


Some key points:


Albanian in the Middle Ages:

- Proto-Albanian (ca. 600 AD) splits into Geg and Tosk due to Tosk innovation(s) (see video on dialectology)
- From 600 AD Slavic invasions of the Balkans. Strong Slavic presence in Albanian toponymy.
- From ca. 1400 conquest by the Ottoman Turks.
- Migration from southern Albania to Greece from the 14th century, and to Italy from the 15th century.



Albanian in Antiquity:

- 167 BC: Start of Roman conquest of the Balkans
- Latin as spoken on the Balkans: Balkan Latin or Balkan Romance
- Many Latin loanwords in Albanian
- Balkan Latin > Romanian (in Romania and Moldavia, and
- Aromanian languages further south and west)
- Balkan Latin > Dalmatian Romance (now extinct)



The rise of Romanian:

The ‘probable Romanian homeland’ (6th-9th c.) is also a good candidate for Proto - Albanian


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Map_Romanian_Dawns.jpg/1024px-Map_Romanian_Dawns.jpg





The name Albania

stem Alban-

Ptolemy (150 BC): Albanoí, Albanópolis (where?)
Byzantium (1050-1300): Al/rbanoi or Al/rbanitai (people)
Arbanon (country)
Old diaspora: Arbëresh (< Arbanensis) in Italy,
Arvanitai in Greece.
16th-century texts: Arbaní ‘Albania’
Southwestern Albania: Labëría (< *Albanía)
Arb- forms show effects of Greek l > r /__C sound change, and Lab- forms show
effects of Slavic TORT metathesis – these forms must have been taken into
Greek/Slavic and later borrowed back into Albanian

[Joker]

Douglas Q. Adams (January 1997):




The Greek and Latin loans have undergone most of the far-reaching phonological changes which have so altered the shape of inherited words while Slavic and Turkish words do not show those changes. Thus Albanian must have acquired much of its present form by the time Slavs entered into Balkans in the fifth and sixth centuries AD [...] borrowed words from Greek and Latin date back to before Christian era [...]






Even very common words such as mik "friend" Lat. amicus

or këndoj "sing" Lat. cantare

come from Latin

and attest to a widespread intermingling of

pre-Albanian and Balkan Latin speakers during the Roman period, roughly from the second century BC to the fifth century AD.

[Joker]

page 392) Indo-European language and culture: an introduction By Benjamin W. Fortson Edition



The dialectal split into Geg and Tosk happened sometime after the region become Christianised in the fourth century AD; Christian Latin loanwords show Tosk rhotacism, such as Tosk murgu "monk" (Geg mungu) from Lat. monachus.




Hamp 1963




The isogloss is clear in all dialects I have studied, which embrace nearly all types possible. It must be relatively old, that is, dating back into the post-Roman first millennium. As a guess, it seems possible that this isogloss reflects a spread of the speech area, after the settlement of the Albanians in roughly their present location, so that the speech area straddled the Jireček Line.

[Novi Pazar]

Yes yes yes, tell me why does Serbian language have ZERO ZILCH Albansko words in her language whilst Shqiptarisht is predominately flooded with Serbian Serb dialect of South Slavic?

Shqiptarisht is noted to contain ARMENIAN LEXICONS, l wonder why? Maybe Albanians came from originally where Armenian is spoken, hmmm.

Let’s quickly turn to POPE PIUS II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini) from his book Europe (c.1400-1458) pg 113:

THIS RACE OF PEOPLE ONCE CAME FROM THE ALBANIA WHICH REPORTEDLY NEIGHBORS COLCHIS IN ASIATIC SCYTHIA!

Finito ala musica Shippies, anything before 1043AD are fables and speculations. YOU ARE MAINLY ALBANIANISED SERBS, LIVE WITH IT.