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I'm trying to understand what you wrote. Can you provide some more info that is easy to understand for people who can't read those symbols? For example, today Bardhe is pronounced B-A-R-DH (E is almost silent) B - Bob A is similar to - "pluck" or "up" but more similar to Boston accent -...

You know, instead of writing this whole paragraph you could have googled this. The argument about Thracian was not that Albanian can't have compound words, as it has plenty, just like any other language. But in Thracian, the adjective goes first, so it would be: Artamolla, not Mollatarta...

Your logic is generally correct, but let's also keep in mind that most of these clades have TMRCA's close to 4000 ybp and their expansion predates Illyrians and Thracians. To distinguish between Illyrians and Thraco-Dacians we should look at TMRCAs of 2500-3000, maximum 3500 ybp, and most often...

That would be pointless because we do not know where those words were spoken.

True, it is not certain that the distribution of the Albanian language and its dialects is not certain to have been identical to today. Actually it much more likely to have been a little different since many ethnic groups lived in Albania, especially in the early Middle Ages, and some...

People getting mad about this is to be expected but you can't hold people responsible. He is a professional, he should be the responsible one. Anyway, it's just an illogical twitter post, not the end of the world, but I value him less as a scientist now.

What do you mean? There are plenty of scientific journals with peer review procedures. I'm sure even these guys will go through that once they're done. What other people have said on the issue is irrelevant. I am not challenging anyone's arguments, I'm saying Lazaridis jumped a step or two...

Those are just working papers, not published, peer-reviewed research. Although these would have been much better than that newspaper article he quoted. Anyway, my point remains, even if we take the "paper's" argument for granted, there is a huge leap from that to a migration from the north.

Lazaridis is wrong and I actually don't think it's an honest mistake. First of all, there is no consensus on the issue of Illyrian-Albanian continuity. Are we joking here? There isn't even a consensus on whether Illyrian was a single language. Be serious. He is only citing one point of view. A...

You are making a tautological argument there. You're saying South Slavs have I2a, and by coincidence I2a is widespread where Illyrians lived. That's not a coincidence, it's there because of the South Slavs. Anyway, there is a very nice post on the origins of I2a here...

You must have done some serious digging to find such an old post :grin:

In my opinion, FTDNA works best with STR tests, which you did, and BigY, which helps with both STR and SNP, especially after you upload it to YFull. I'd say if you want to stick with FTDNA, wait for their discount period and order a BigY test. If you want to do SNP tests, I would recommend...

Thank you! Well the safest way to determine your subclade is through SNP testing and since you did a STR test FTDNA doesn't go beyond E-M35. The STR values can be compared to others however, so results with common values can have their subclades determined with a fair amount of certainty. I...

Hi aussienoel! Could you please share your STR marker values? That way we could check your deeper subclade classification and give you a better idea of your paternal ancestry. An example: 12 24 14 10 16-18... etc.

Haplogroups E-V13, J2b-L283 and R1b-Z2103 all seem to have expanded into the Balkans during the Bronze Age, that's about 3000-5000 years ago. We don't know if they arrived separately or together, or which languages they initially spoke. So R1b did not arrive later than the other two. R1b-Z2103...

I wasn't saying your Y-DNA line is 100% Albanian, we don't know that yet, but there is a good chance. BY611 is 3300 years old and the R1b-Z2705 Balkan branch has been in the Balkans for at least 1300 years, but I think that once these uncommon haplotypes are commercially tested this will be...

Hi Atalay! Thank you for reaching out and welcome. Which archive are you talking about exactly? Could you cite the source, and the page number please? This type of conversion was actually very frequent. Keep in mind that Macedonia has never been an Albanian controlled territory, and whoever...

The Slovenian project admin is unwilling to cooperate for some reason. He replied to a first email but as soon as the Croatian sample was mentioned he stopped replying. There is no way to contact that person. In any case, I think that one might even be BY250 or L51+, I'm not sure. But the one...

Much of the "bias" comes from how ethnicity is defined and perceived. Being Greek Orthodox and writing in Greek has usually sufficed for Greek historians to label a person or a people as Greek. This is a pretty loose definition for others in the Balkans who believe native language and ethnic...

I have read descriptions of the Slavs and I agree that they didn't look like most Eastern Slavs today. I just don't think it's because they mixed with Illyrians. Maybe Dacians, but if they had been so close to them the Romans should have noticed them a bit earlier. If you look at the I2a thread...