Actually, for u to have a better understanding of my point, I'm not really interested in linguistic differences between Illyrian, Thracian, Dacian and Albanian.
But you can see your compatriots opened more threads where we can see Illyrian, Illyrian, and only Illyrian.
And it is funny.
Albanians can claim direct descent from Illyrians both genetically and anthropologically by carrying mostly native balkan haplogroups and having mostly a native Balkan appearance.
No.
Nobody can claim, not only Albanians, and other peoples try same, mostly Slovenians and Bosniacs.
Slovenians did serious studies. They took Messapic inscriptions and using rigorous analytical methods they demonstrated that Messapic texts are very similar to Slovenian.
Nobody did something similar.
Drawback:
Maybe Messapic and Sovenian have same root but what about Illyrian.
Some linguists think that Illyrian is related to Messapic but it is not proved.
Illyrians disappeared as political and cultural entity in 3-4 century. They lived from Southern Adriatic to Northern Adriatic and Pannonian plain.
Surely in every today's nation from Greek to Slovenian there is Illyrian blood.
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About genetic, please we can took pages and pages and we will be in the start. Because we don't know a lot of facts. Yes some Serbs, Bosniacs and Croats say that first inhabitants of Balkans were I2 carriers as hunters gatherers, much before early farmers. We can see new studies where I2 were Anatolian early farmers too.
Genetic issues can be very awkward. Caution with the conclusions, some new findings and concepts can be significantly changed.
Now if the Albanian language is actually Thracian/Dacian and not Illyrian, I wouldn't care less. All three groups were fierce mountain warriors raiding each other and whoever they pleased At the end of the day, they were all 3 neighbouring Indo-European languages spoken by Pre-IE people of the same blood, so who cares who ended up speaking what after the IE migration and if we actually later ended up speaking the language of our distant cousins, considering the other theory that the Thracian Bessi migrated west.
You maybe no. But a lot of Albanians will be dissapointed. Because they didn't develop critical thinking.
They think if someone says that Slovenian or Bosniac etc. is successor of Illyrian it is attack. But no.
Today's scientists have opinion that no modern language is successor because there no evidence.
In recent comprehensive study about Indo European languages and gramarr authors nowhere mention that Illyrian is related to some modern language.
Illyrian extinced as a lot of other Indo European languages in the past.
Like I told u earlier, what I dont understand is why you cannot see/accept that if Albanian is closely related to Daco-Thracian and Balto-Slavic, while in the same is shown to have lived in close proximity to Doric Greek, then that proves the Proto-Albanian was spoken up from Danube to Epirus and Macedonia.
You maybe didn't understand.
I write all time about Free Dacian.
Yes, Albanian, Balto-Slavic and Thracian/Dacian are close related. I will put new thread about rigorous American study which demonstrates that original (non borrowed) Albanian words are closest to Old Church Slavonic and Lithuanian.
Having said that, I take pride in every Ancient Balkanic tribe belonging mostly to the Dinaroid subrace, so your courageous Carpi are more than welcomed according to my book, including the warlike mountain dwellers of Epirus, Macedonia, Peloponnesus, Boiotia, Aetolia, Acarnania, or even the tribes in the Italian Peninsula.
You have a point.
It is valid theory and very founded, more Romanian scientists developed it.
And some Albanians in conversation with me think that theory has strong foundations.
There are more pillars of theory and in comparison with all other theories it can combine all contradictions in past the best.
Free Dacians are for respect.
If we accept Carpi and probably another Free Dacian tribe are the founders of Albanian nation in Albania.
But of course things are complex.
It is old story about natives and newcomers and story is similar in many parts of the world. Surely when Free Dacian came to today's Albania, probably first in the region of Mat, some local population existed, although these areas according evidence probably before Carpi could be quite depopulated.
It is similar everywhere in the Balkans and beyond. Todays nations are mixed, newcomers and local population. It is reason why diversity in the Balkans is large.