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The thing with Albanians is that today's Albanians are very likely the decendants of only a fraction of the Albanian speaking people of the early middle ages. The current genetic diversity is quite low and it has been calculated that the ancestors of modern Albanians amount to only a few...

How is that clear? Do you have any evidence of transmission from Albanian into Slavic?

Teaching at a particular university does not make your work unscientific. The best measure is the actual work, where the person has published, and where they completed their PhD. That said, his conclusions in the Himara paper seem very biased. Looking at his appendices I reached completely...

I'm not sure how the expansion of the Greek language is impacted by these findings. Greeks have both Neolithic farmer (south of Caucasus) and Bronze Age Steppe ancestry at substantial levels, so in my opinion genetic data does not change much for linguistics.

Only the last one has similar patterns. The shields I was talking about: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30644742@N04/9694328682

I can't read that coin writing, the resolution is too low, but shouldn't there have been a preposition before the word to make it possessive? Like τοῦ for example.

The coins look like minishields. You could say they are shields if you didn't know they were tiny. So the people who produced the coins are either the same or very closely related to the ones who made the shields. As for the name, the Albanian word for lake seems a very straightforward...

This was the point I was making. What the government decides to establish is not "the true language". You just contradicted yourself:

Obviously with bla, bla, bla I clearly meant that in the 1930s Gheg would have been found to be better suited to answer the challenges of the time, just because of who had the power to impose their will. At that time it was Zogu and the official language was Gheg, later it was Hoxha and it...

I know all of this. You misunderstood my point. I wasn't arguing against standardization. But I disagree with your point here: You are saying the Tosk dialect is better equipped to face "the challenges of modernity", or at least it was found to be so in 1972. I mentioned the wolf story...

None of that was happening in the decades following the French revolution. The French nation-state standardized French by imposing it in the education system and replacing all regional dialects and other languages. So by your own logic, standardized French is the original language of the world.

How is this relevant to Tosk being "the original Albanian"?

Once you agree that the decision was political, which it was, you also have to accept that the "reasoning" behind it was simply a way to justify it. Otherwise you risk believing the wolf who justifies eating the lamb because it spilled his water even though the lamb drank further downstream. The...

Such much wisdom without even researching the topic for 1 minute... Sile let's apply your logic and resolve all linguistic mysteries: French was the first language to be properly standardized, and the government clearly knew something about it, so it obviously is the real Romance language, the...

The paper had samples from Pannonia. Hungarians had not arrived there yet, so the mixed haplogroups "should" have been Slavs, Avars, other Germanics, or just pre-migration locals.

Thank you! Do you have any theories on why there are no Slavic clades there? There are known historical associations between the Slavs and Longobards, and the Longobard migration to Italy probably followed decades of living side by side with Slavic tribes. Instead the mixed ones look more...

I thought you meant that I2a moved into the western Balkans before R1a. Now it seems you're saying it's been there all along. Are you? Because if so, you have to take into account it's higher diversity further north and east.

I might be wrong but I thought there was only a fraction of Y-DNA in that part of Greece that belongs to R1b-S28. If it's actually a majority then maybe a more substantial migration was responsible. The invasions lasted for a few years though. And even if they were defeated at Delphi, the Celts...

If I was a tourist and happened to go there during this time I would feel robbed of my money.

It is possible that some I2a might not be Slavic, but I don't think what you are saying supports this idea. Vlachs didn't necessarily come from Dacians, they were and still are local Balkan people (including previously Slavic speaking ones) who were latinized. That included all kinds of people...