Originally Posted by
Garrick
Dr. Marika Butskhrihidze (2013) find similarities between Armenian and Albanian. She is not the only one, yet in 1906 H. Pederson noted closeness these languages, after him Pisani (1950), Kortlandt (1980) and other authors.
Butskhrihidze notes:
"I can at least tell you about remarkable similarities,I found between Albanian and Armenian. This is how it all started."
"What I was not expecting though is to find myself bursting aloud every 5 minutes “yes,the same word in Albanian has similar meaning!” At the end of the very first class,I have noticed I really annoyed Prof. Russell.He quietly uttered though: “yes,there are similarities between Armenian and Albanian”, without adding any extra comment."
According to Butskhrihidze:
"Many lexical correspondences are scattered in various papers and etymological dictionaries...
There are many more lexical correspondences awaiting further in - depth analysis."
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My opinion that Albanian language has its origin in the Caucasus. Basically, probably it is the language R1b-ht35 carriers - Armenian haplotype.
Of course, E-V13 carriers had own language, and that language was probably Afro-Asiatic.
Somewhere (Caucasus, South Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia, East Romania) R1b-ht35 Armenian and E-V13 carriers are connected.
It is interesting, today in Albanian can still be found Afro-Asiatic words. That was the reason why some researchers have sought a connection between the Albanian and the Egyptian (Coptic) and other Afro-Asiatic languages.
But probably language of R1b-ht35 carriers became dominant, and Afro-Asiatic words remained to a lesser degree.
Of course, later, this language was under the influence of Dacian, Romanian (East Latin), Russian and other Slavic languages. And other carriers of haplogroups entered in population.
In Albanian there are few Greek words, as ancestors of Albanians, who probably lived from southern Russia to the east Romania, could come into contact only with Greek colonists in the north and east Black sea, but not with the Balkan Greeks.
There are more interesting things in Albanian. For example, there is a similarity in the accent some Albanian and Russian words. Earlier I wondered why the Albanian and Russian sometimes sounding similar.
Ancestors of Albanians were able to have contacts with Dacians and Thracian tribes around some areas near to Black sea. But much less likely with the Thracians deeper in the Balkans, and not to Illyirians.
Illyrian is CENTUM.
Albanian is SATEM (as Armenian, Russian, Dacian etc.). Latin in Albanian came from Romanian, in the east, not Latin directly from the west.
Because ancestors of Albanians probably lived somewhere between South Russia and East Romania, it is logical that Albanian has no similarity with Illyrian.
But it it has closeness with Armenian, and (later impacts) Dacian, Romanian (Latin), Slavic, etc. In Albanian there are Afro-Asiatic words (probably from original language of E-V13 carriers) etc.
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Why is this important to say in the topic about I2a-Din and Balkans. Because, Balkan peoples are significantly I2a carriers,
Geg Albanians have at least I2a haplogroup in the Balkans (much less than the Greeks, not to speak of Romanians, Serbs, Bosniacs, Croats, etc...).
Illyrians and Thracians (and Dacian, of course) probably were significantly I2a carriers and today Balkan population largely comes from them, and much less from Goths, Celts, Slavs etc. although they are certainly contributed.
For me the most interesting question is which was the original I2a and earlier I language. First Balkan language, the language of hunters-gatherers was language of I carriers. Where we can search the language? My opinion is maybe in Sardinia (Nuragic?), or even Iberia. I'd like to hear any idea, it's probably not easy and carries speculation but to try.
