[gothic-l] Re: gothic traces in the east?

[Anthony Appleyard]

  "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at cantacuzino.ro> wrote:-
> ... The Albanians are different from the Romanians (Vlachs),
> although their languages share a common Thracian substratum.

I thought that:-
  Albanian was descended from Illyrian rather than Thracian.
  The Vlachs are descended from Illyrians who were Latinized in language but
kept some Illyrian words in such areas as mountain shepherding.
  What is now Rumania was almost completely depopulated by invading tribes of
steppe nomads from the east after the Roman Empire broke up, and it was
gradually repopulated later by Vlachs, and those became the modern Rumanians.


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