blevins13
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I have been thinking of whether Albanian is directly descended from Yamnaya, that would mean it was the northern neighbor of Greek, but a lot of linguists actually disagree with that, Albanian-Greek have few etymological and shared influences to attest for that, to have been neighbors from Early Bronze Age. Unless, Albanoid-like languages were spoken more widely north of Greece and a variant of it which didn't border Greek survived.
2nd option is the Balkan-Carpathian cultural complex during Late Bronze Age which is quite attractive and connects a lot of dots.
3rd and last option would be Illyrian, which is being dismissed by an Albanologist like Matzinger (2021 Der Illyrer).
To divide which is which with between Albanians and Greek will be difficult, but even if they come from the same source, they don’t come at the same time, and the path followed from Ukraine to Albania from Proto-Greeks and Proto1 Albanian it is different. It seems that the Proto- Albanian group split first from Yamnaya and after we have the split of the Proto-Armenian and Proto-Greeks are the last to split.
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