SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT BETWEEN ILLYRIAN AND ALBANIAN LANGUAGE
SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT BETWEEN ILLYRIAN AND ALBANIAN LANGUAGEIllyrians used to inhabit a vast region from modern Hungary to Greece. Illyrian traces are noticed even in southern Poland, Illyrian elements exist in Baltic and Slavic languages.About 1300 B.C. this people of Indo-European stock settled on the northern and eastern coasts of the Adriatic Sea. Included among its members were various tribes of Dalmatians and the Pannonians. Those of Illyrians who crossed the Adriatic and settled in Italy spoke the Messapic language. The Greeks established cities on the Adriatic coast of Illyria in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., and in the 4th and 3rd, Macedonian kings conquered parts of the land. The last Illyrian kingdom was established in the 3rd century B.C. with the capital in Scodra (now Shkoder, Albania). After Dalmatia seceded from the Illyrian kingdom the Romans conquered Scodra and there established, in 168 B.C., a colony they named Illyricum. Gradually Dalmatia was conquered (78-77 B.C.); then, by 35-34 B.C. the southern areas of the former kingdom of Illyria were added and, in 9 B.C., Pannonia in the north. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the region of ancient Illyria became part of the Byzantine Empire. In the next two centuries Slavic peoples gradually drifted in to settle on Illyrian lands, and as early as the 6th century, North Illyrians, who lived in Pannonia and modern Croatia and Slovenia, were completely assimilated by them. The set of Indo-European vowels *a, *e, *o became a, e in Illyrian. Most of diphthongs were well preserved, as well as the sonant sounds. Indo-European voiced aspirates coincided with simple voiced consonants. It is still unknown whether Illyrian was a satem or a centum language.Illyrian languageIndo-European language spoken in pre-Roman times along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and in southeastern Italy. The language of the Illyrian fragments found in Italy is usually called Messapic, or Messapian. Some scholars believe the modern Albanian language (?????????) (q.v.) to be descended from Illyrian.Those scholars are so blind...
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