Are Balkan Slavs Slavicized Romanians?

[thenewestmember]

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[Bosniensis]

Quite good % of South Slavic peoples are native Illyrians and Thracians.

There is a dispute about which haplogroups are native and which are not.

I certainly consider myself FAR closer to Romanians, Macedonians and Albanians than to let's say Czechs, Poles or Russians whom are consider practically unrelated to my people.

[Crn Volk]

No. Romanians are part Slavic themselves. We are Slavicised PaleoBalkan people for the most part, especially Southeast Slavic speakers

[Heaven]

Illyrians were a seafarer nation that disappeared in 3rd century AD. Neither Albanian nor any other Balkanites sprang from them. Let aside being seafarer, modern Balkanites are people who cant even swim properly.
Throw average Balkanite to a pool he would get drowned.

[Bosniensis]

No. Romanians are part Slavic themselves. We are Slavicised PaleoBalkan people for the most part, especially Southeast Slavic speakers

We have to be part Slavic for we are exposed to them directly. People trade, marry etc.. but we should not allow others to steal our Balkan identities.

[MiloshN]

I think there is a better chance that my ancestor was Vlach than a Greek or something other ...

[Crn Volk]

Illyrians were a seafarer nation that disappeared in 3rd century AD. Neither Albanian nor any other Balkanites sprang from them. Let aside being seafarer, modern Balkanites are people who cant even swim properly.
Throw average Balkanite to a pool he would get drowned.

Check out water polo world rankings

[Crn Volk]

I think there is a better chance that my ancestor was Vlach than a Greek or something other ...

And what is a Vlach? A latinized balkanite

[WeirdLookingFellow]

In essence we are the same, Paleo-Balkan + Slavic admix. Some more of one and less of the other, some have some Turan, but that's it.

[Benyzero]

Throw average Balkanite to a pool he would get drowned.

lmao