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Both from Romance. Compare Italian gioventù and fanciullo (ciullo is a shortening of it that has come to mean 'immature, ignorant'). Old dictionaries have it as cull, diphthongization is common in Polog area. Unless is a variation of <gj>, <ç>, or sometimes Standard <dj>, <xh> never occurs in...

https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/mayor/071202.pdf Not exactly in Europe geographically, so I wonder if this is the right forum, but relevant to European culture. It's not peer reviewed yet, but give it a look.

"Illyrian" was many langauges, some might have been satem, some might have been centum, I'm going as far as saying there might have even been non-IE langauges spoken there (we have no conclusive proof). There were at least five languages spoken, not counting Dacian, Thracian and Greek colonies...

I was talking about influence. Of course we need people to carry the langauge, but not neccessarly a whole lot, just a very influental group. Latin speakers today derive from Romans and different groups of people found where the Latin spread (also migrators later, but you get the point). They...

Of course Albanians don't have native Eastern European Admixture, because there isn't much the Dinaric Alps: See? It doesn't even originate in the Balkans. look at the darkest part. It originates in Belarus/Lithuania/Russia mostly a little bit of Poland/Ukraine/Latvia too. Yes they did...

You misunderstood the data. By the way, this is what they said in their AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1ee560/askscience_ama_we_are_the_authors_of_a_recent/c9zkgq0 They did not say Albanians came in the Balkans in c. 500 AD, but that Albanians stood together despite...

Here you go again on attacking me, reading between the lines, cherrypicking what I say to make me seem dumb and you smart. Go on keep attacking me if it makes you feel better. Go on keep playing dumb to make me seem unreliable, that'll show me. Go on keep cherrypicking what you think counts as...

It's cute how you twisted my words by putting them out of the context. You're really out of arguments huh? That's why your solution of arguing against me is by attacking me? You really have nothing constructive to say for what I provided, so attack my poor grammar? Just because I didn't explain...

Latin evolved alongide Albanian. They have been in continuous contact. They've evolved together. And why do you fabricate what I've said? When have I ever claimed such thing? When have they ever been my theories when I clearly posted links and quotes. I posted the proof, you choose to ignore...

Latin has evolved as a language. Latinos picked up Latin influence from Spanish and Portugese explorers. Up in Quebec, French mixed with natives for the fur trade. The Latin influences Albanian shows are pre-Spanish, pre-Portugese, pre-French, pre-these Romance diversions. Jerinej Kopitar says...

Of course there's proof Albanians were part of the Roman empire. It's linguistics, it' a science. You just choose to ignore it because of the bias. The language influences puts Albanian in the Roman Empire, not out of, specifically in the Latin part of it, not the Hellenic. Albanian languages...

Albanian is the origin though, spread due to the Balkan sprachbund. Maybe you mean Classical Latin vs Vulgar Latin? Classical Latin was the standard language, the one that was supposed to be spoken but not the one common people spoke. People spoke Vulgar Latin and that's the one that Romance...

Wishful thinking. Romanian is a Latin language, but also part of the Balkan Sprachbund. That means it's influenced grammatically by other Balkan languages. In particular the article you're talking about is of Albanian origin as other Slavic languages don't have it. Polish doesn't have articles...

The words in common with Romanian and Slavic are Slavic loanwords. Sometimes Romanian loanwords into Slavic languages. Romanian is a Latin language. Languages spoken next to each other tend to resemble in pronunciation. I can take Basque and Spanish for example, they sound similar, yet Basque is...

Linguistics. It's a science so it's not worth using soft arguments againist it, it pretty much crushes them. Just because you don't understand it, it doesn't make it false. But yeah, those are Albanian loanwords into Romanian. Romanian lanaguage and Albanian language have a history of being...