Are PaleoBalkanic and Vlach Synonymous?

[Pribislav]

Dalmatian language is real Latin Balkan language, it's not bastardized with huge Slavic influence and recent borrowed French words as Romanian.

[Dna8]

No. 'Paleo' comes from the Greek word palaios which means "ancient" and the term Paleo-Balkan basically just means "ancient Balkan" and is used in reference to the people who have been around in the Balkans since antiquity (i.e. before Roman and Slavic colonization of the region). Greek and Albanian are said to be the only surviving Paleo-Balkan languages since both have been spoken in the Balkans since antiquity. Some extinct Paleo-Balkan languages include Paeonian, Thracian, and Illyrian (if you assume Albanian isn't a surviving Illyrian language).

Vlachs (not to be confused with the social class 'vlach') are just the Romance-speaking people of Southeast Europe. Ethnic Romanians are also considered Vlachs for example.

In terms of whether one can "look Paleo-Balkan", that's simply another way of saying whether the person looks Mediterranean/Southern European.

Vlachs (especially those from Greece, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria) are associated with having a Paleo-Balkan look since they're genetically Southern European without as much Slavic influence as South Slavs, but they aren't a Paleo-Balkan people per se.

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Paleo-Balkan languages/peoples:

I enjoy such maps.. especially the second one

Illyrans were tribe which lived on small territory in present day southern Dalmatia and Montenegro. Romans called them "Illyrans", and we don't now what was their orignal name or how they call themselves (not Illyrans for sure).
When Romans conquered Balkans they gave name Illyria/Illyric to big territory from Istia and Slovenia to western Serbia. Sources are clear that Dalmatae and Liburnians were not same as Illyrians.

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Dalmatian language is real Latin Balkan language, it's not bastardized with huge Slavic influence and recent borrowed French words as Romanian.

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[Dna8]

All in all, I don't believe much of anything can be said definitively about the PaleoBalkan people or langugages