Yetos, come on file. I'm interested in the topic of Paleo Balkan languages. I don't want another interesting closed thread because of this.
We both speak Paleo Balkan languages and have Paleo Balkan yDNA, with the difference of me wanting to be Albanian and you Greek.
Can you contribute with information on the language of the Makedonians.
I'm personally considering the possibility that Epirus and Makedonia have some links to Brygian together with Paeonian.
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Brygian is considered the most close to primitive Greek,
by most Linguists,
I had wrote about Brygian in a thread in the forum,
the main problem about brygian or Phygian are words like Βεναγονος -γονος=-son compare Ander-son Bena-son Bena-gonos
until lately most Believed that Brygian was Satem language, cause Herodotus placed them with Thracian,
But Smerdaleos uses Hescychios of Alexandreia lexicon and othe known IE, uses toponym like river Cem Κινα/χινα Kena Cijevna etc (tabula peutigeneriana)
and enter to Katicic, Elsie, Mantzinger, Garcia Ramon, Polome, Pedersen, Krahe, works,
there he explains the Satem 1 and Satem 2 languages, Satem 1 is fully satemization, like Iranian,
in Satem 2, less/lower satemization, are only 2 languages, Albanian and Armenian,
his result is that there there should be 3-4 languages spoken in West balkans,
he proves that Brygian and Illyrian were Centum languages,
but he accepts that Brygian had a satem cover sound, which probably tricked Herodotus to place them as Thracians
compare cocolate tsokolate not kokolate
or Latin Cellarium, Greek Kellarion but Aromanian Cillar=tsilar
he spots the possible mistakes mainly of katicic and Pokome and proposes the above.
in the blog are just 4 paragraphs,
this must be propably a summary of a greater work, either published, either not yet,
he uses IE evolution, very well, he knows linguistic changes I could not even think.
and he seems pissed of with Ιλλυρiοδιφες = Illyrian linguistic 'expert magicians' or 'wise guys' (sometimes the word -διφης is used to describe not except, but 'wise guys' or 'I know all' )
it is good to find it in English
But generally Brygians are consider the 'layer' among Greek genesis area and other Aimos languages.
to some born in same area, to others they were neighbours,
what exactly you want to know?