Albanian Language and the connection with the Q-Celtic /Keltoi languages !!
We must take in consideration that when scholars talk about Celts, they are not talking about a particular "race", or about natives of specific regions now associated with the Celts, or about adherents of any particular religion. Nor are they making arbitrary terminological distinctions, they are talking about Celtic language speakers and their cultures. Celts were a diverse group of independent, indigenous tribal societies. While similarities in language, artefacts, religion and social structures are known, each culture had its own language and traditions. The Celts rarely used their written language, passing along beliefs, knowledge, and wisdom through oral traditions, in the same way as the Illyrians/ Albanians did.One of the most influential tribes of the Balkans, the Scordiskoi, had established their capital at Singidunum in 3rd century BC. Taking into consideration the Cletic tribe Skordiskoi, so much present in Dardania (modern Kosova) from the 3 century BC and its ending -oi, common on both tribe names, we may guess that we have to deal, like on the case of Japodes, a mixing Celto-Illyrian tribe, with Dardanian- Celtic symbiosis of two tribes. The Celtic languages have unusual features within the Indo-European family, which may be due to greater influence from the non-Indo European languages they displaced and/or to greater retention of archaic forms of Indo-European. Interesting to note that ancient Scotland was also called ALBANIA or ALBANY, and the island of Britain itself was called ALBION. The Latin word ALBA [meaning white] mustnt be confused with the more widespread indo-european word meaning mountain, because both words have entered the English language: Alpine and Albino. All these names mean "white cliffs" or "white mountains", which is how they look when one approaches them from the sea. The celtic Picts were a confederation of tribes in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from Roman times until the 10th century. They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde valley and have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named by Roman historians or found on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also known as Pictavia, became the Kingdom of Alba also known as 'Albania', during the 10th century and the Picts became the Fir Albainn, the men of Alba. Is possible that the British Isles were populated by members of the Mediterranian sub-branch of the white family, who were themselves akin to the ancient Iberian, Balkan and Mediterranean peoples.Indeed, Celtic origin myths recorded in Medieval Scotland and Ireland suggest a possible beginning in Anatolia and then to Iberia via Egypt. There are records of Celtic mercenaries in Egypt serving the Ptolemies. Thousands were employed in 283-246 BC and they were also in service around 186 BC.Apparently, of all the world languages, Albanian is particularly closely related to Q-Celtic, such as Irish. The relationship seems more or less evident, and it wouldn't be too difficult to find some completely regular correspondences [they are pretty close]. Surely enough, all lexemes are within the basic lexics. Also note that neither Welsh nor Breton are particularly close to Irish, therefore including Albanian into the Celtic group might in fact be reasonable. The words are most in dialect taken from Isidore Dyen's IE database from the 60s.NOTAlbanian NUKIrish NIWEAlbanian NEBreton NIIrish INN, SINN- The /n/-root is present only in Italic, Welsh, Breton and Albanian. Others have /m-/ or /w-/ or similar. PIE had *wei for nominative, *n.s-me- in other cases. The *n.s part occurs in Hittite (anz-), Germanic (uns-), and OCS (ny, nasU, namU).Also Italic, Celtic and Albanian, where by analogy it's also used in the nominative.ONEAlbanian NJIBreton UNANIrish AONTWOAlbanian DYIrish DOTHREEAlbanian TRE/ TRI (dialect form)Irish TRIWATER(Note this rather unique coincidence in "water")Albanian UJIrish UISGEFATHERAlbanian ATIrish ATHAIR (Irish exhibits the Celtic loss of Indo-European p. Athair is relatedto pater and father)Stephen Oppenheimer's books "The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story" and "Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World" are published by Constable & Robinson
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