alexmikli OP t1_j5o2rg7 wrote
Reply to comment by DontJealousMe in TIL that the first time the Albanian language was mentioned in History was a witness of a crime reporting he had heard someone yelling in Albanian. by alexmikli
Albanian is very likely a remnant of the Illyrian(or perhaps Thracian or Paeonian instead) language, but we lost the connecting branch between the Illyrians before the fall of Rome and the sudden emergence of the Albanians in the 12th century.
Most likely this is just because the Greek and Latin speakers of coastal Illyria didn't have a reason to talk about the highlanders or the records were lost.
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