You are using Matzinger to argue messapic comes from south italy? He clearly syas messapic is a balkanic language. Some balkna ethnos migrating accros the adriatic sea and through Illyrian territory without ever being mentioned? Lol man they are illyrians.
This quote is a bit outdated but it points to Dardanians:
"Again, the Galabri, writes Strabo, are a people of the Dardaniatae, in whose land is an ancient city.’’ "Word for word, Galabri is Calabri.
"Without being identical, the name of the Italian lapyges (which was to all intents and purposes another name for Calabri) is closely akin to lapodes ; so that, in Italy, we have Calabri called also lapyges, and, in Illyria, lapodes near a population called Galabri."
Pg 34
TRIBES AND RACES
A DESCRIPTIVE ETHNOLOGY OF ASIA, AFRICA & EUROPE
Robert G. Latham
I don't, but Hrvat22 keeps repeating that for some reason. I believe Messapian came from the Balkans.