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Here is a study on the Albanian language done by a Dutch linguist
https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projec...QI-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
The name Albania
stem Alban-
Ptolemy (150 BC): Albanoķ, Albanópolis (where?)
Byzantium (1050-1300): Al/rbanoi or Al/rbanitai (people)
Arbanon (country)
Old diaspora: Arbėresh (< Arbanensis) in Italy,
Arvanitai in Greece.
16th-century texts: Arbanķ Albania
Southwestern Albania: Labėrķa (< *Albanķa)
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
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