God save the king and his people 🇬🇧 Thank you verry much for your great support. Zoti e ruajt mbretin dhe popullin e tij. Faleminderit shumë për mbështetjen tuaj të madhe.
Ne 2 emisione qe kisha par nje ishin gdhendur fjal shqipe ne muret e egjiptit sa qe tha shqipja dhe egjipti qenkan me te vjetra se greqishtja. Dhe nje tjeter shkuan ca amerikan ne nje shpell te virgjer shum te medhe, dhe ne mur shum thell tokes ishte gdhendur 2 shkronja nje e huaj, dhe nje L e madhe e dores qe vetem shqipja e shkran ate gerem, vetem kur than kete shkronje se njohim
1.Fjalet shqip jan gjetur ne te gdhendurat e egjiptit! 2. Ne nje shpell te pa vizituar prej njerzve shum thell posht tokes u gjet L e madhe e dores, sa than kete shkronje se njohim
Shumë falemenderit per kto punime. Po na frymëzojnë. Le ta die bota qfar kontribute te rrendsishem kan bo stregjshët tonë se ka t'boje jo veq me ne po me krejt njerzimin. Me shkenc, teknologji, akademi dhe art e verteta del ne dritë ndal kadale. Nji kafe a ke prej meje. ☕ "The true History of the humanity will be written only when it will be written with the participation of Albanians". - Maximilian Lambertz
As a Greek, I deeply admire Albanians and take pride in our Balkans, the birthplace of many ancient, influential cultures. My own research, consistent with the Max Planck study, suggests that Armenian, Greek, and Old Balkan languages (including Albanian) are among the oldest branches of Proto-Indo-European, possibly predating languages like Ancient Egyptian and Sumerian. However, Elena Kokaqi's interpretations appear flawed. The citation around 12:10 may misleadingly imply that Homer’s language was predominantly Albanian and that Modern Greek is disconnected from Homeric Greek. This view is often perceived as Albanian propaganda by international scholars and literate audiences. Even if Albanian preserved more Homeric roots than Modern Greek, it’s likely due to Modern Albanian being another distinct branch of Homeric Greek, potentially more conservative than Modern Greek. Alternatively, shared roots could represent loanwords within an otherwise independent Albanian language. The table at around 13 minutes is totally inaccurate, suggesting either misunderstanding or a political motive: γορός appears in Aeschylus but as a spelling variant of γυρός ('rounded, curved, crooked', not "knee")-a word still used in Modern Greek with the same meaning. Compare γυρoς, 'gyros', the typical Greek street food prepared to form a rounded grilled meet, 'gyro-', etc.). μηνίω (not μηνιώ) is a verb meaning "to cherish wrath," with no equivalent ending (ω) in Albanian but in Modern Greek. Albanian mënia resembles μανία (mania), 'madness, mania, frenzy' in both Ancient and Modern Greek, but lacks fidelity in form. βοή still means "loud cry, the murmur of a crowd" in Modern Greek (compare βοή-θεια 'aid called for, succour'), and θρῆνος also retains its meaning. I could point out several errors in every line of the table. The table generally disregards apparent Modern Greek cognates of Ancient Greek words. It replaces them with Modern Greek synonyms of different etymological origins, misleadingly suggesting a break between Greek's Ancient, Medieval, and Modern stages. Moreover, other significant misinterpretations persist. For instance, γραῖα and γρια, both meaning 'old woman', and ἥλιος ('sun') exist in both Ancient and Modern Greek with the same spellings and meanings. Ms. Kokaqi’s alignment of ἥλιος ('sun') with Modern Greek αστέρι ('star') over Modern Greek ἥλιος ('sun') seems arbitrary, while the Albanian yll, and all the other dubious Albanian "cognates" in column 2 remain distinct in spelling, sound and meaning. Thank you for this otherwise informative and highly valuable video!
Elena Kocaqi is a charlatan who appeals to the deepest ultranationalist feelings of Albanians and provides them with pseudo intellectual/linguistic connections. There is a heavy influence of Ancient Greek in Modern Albanian but that is never studied thoroughly and never by Greek and Albanian native speakers, but mostly by foreigners with limited knowledge of AG and even more limited of predecessor of Modern Albanian. The most comprehensive work I have seen of that Vladimir Orel, but he didn’t speak Albanian either. The Hellenization of South Illyrian tribes, some in part, others in full has never been taught in Albanian schools. Also there there is no explanation on how the dialectical split happened and how the Hellenization turned to Latinization of language. From both dialects, the most accurate pertaining the AG borrowings into Albanian is the Gegh. What modern Albanians are missing is the equivalent of Paparigopoulos, leaving pseudo intellectuals like Kocaqi fill the void.
@@MSPANAKIS Modern greeks are arrvanit white albanian and balck turk that some give them a country and told them that you are greek how come that check your history and dna and we can discus further more
Hellenism has not rubbed off on most of the barbarians surrounding Hellas .......... mostly because they refuse to educate thus, civilize themselves. You can't reason with idiots !!! ;)
Thanks Mr. Spanakis. There are a few personalities, self proclaimed scientists who have literally disgraced us with the amount of stubidity they spread. Ironically, mrs. Kocaqi would have been Vorioipirotissa (greek minority) according to the definition (from south, greek first/last names) but spreads some of the greatest stubidities about the greek art, language, history etc. Since I speak both greek and albanian, I believe though that your comment is pretty accurate, the two languages seems to have been interacting with each other from the very ancient times. For example: Jam = Hmi, Je = ei, Eshte = esti are in modern albanian close to the ancient greek. Words such as Qeni = Kunos, Mi = Mus, Dielli = Deili (Hlios vs Ouranos) exist also.
True, after so many years, were people laughed at us, when we told them our language is very old, science should put more work in it and show the public the truth
I don’t want us Albanians to be the best or better than anyone else but I am glad that money is spent to help us find our true position in human history even though they tried to wipe us out we managed to save our language which perpetuates who we are.
@@georgegiallousis4400 So if they find Greek writing or Latin writing in Albania means they never used writing,I don’t think so but I think because they were part of the Roman Empire they used what everyone was using and it would have been limited to the nobles or priests.Don’t forget that the winners or occupiers wrote their own history and wiped out anyone else’s.
As a 1st generation Albanian living in the UK, I’ve always had an interest in the history of my people. I just came across your channel and would like to wholeheartedly show my upmost appreciation and respect to you brother. This is truly inspiring, educational & honourable. Shows the true face of the Albanian people & not the negativity portrayed here and all over. 🇦🇱❤🖤
As an Englishman i have the upmost respect for the Albanian people, the true first Europeans or even civilisation with an ancient language. Not to mention that they are the descendants of Illyrians. In my view all Albanians should be treated like the Kings and Queens that they are.
@@acketech69No they are not Illyrians, but their descendants…at least a significant portion of them for a simple reason - Proper Illyrians (as Romans called them). lived in what is now Albania (with their capital being Shkodra), and closely related to Dardanians (modern Kosovo)…. Albanian language os made up of Proto-Albanian words (directly related to Proto-Indo-European) and some Pre-Indo-European words, while the vast majority of. Albanian vocabulary is made up of ancient Latin (at least some 60%) and ancient doric Greek. That in itself tells you that Albanians were there in the Balkans because where else could their language been so drastically latinaized and greecesized if not in the Balkans… and remeber, Illyrians were still around in the time of Romans and well after the fall of Roman empire….The only language the Illyrians of that time could speak could have been only the Latin…What the Illyrian soike before the Roman time is hard to say, but logically it could have been a dialect of Proto-Indio- European…or a combination of Pre and Proto-Indo-European….
@@acketech69 DNA says that they are,related to the Greeks and south Italians so logic should tell you that they are.Albanian language is unique which means they have always been there maybe longer than some others,but don’t worry money has been spent to look for archaeological sites and DNA studies will be done and there won’t be need to listen to foreign sources that are biased and continue with rhetoric.
A fantastic video about albanian language. The truth can't be hiden anymore. Go Albanins, save the country & save the most beautiful ALBANIAN LANGUAGE.
Aty ku flitet për Geg dhe Toskë, ju mund të gjeni Dardaninë Ilire. ( Emri Kosove, nji emër i krijuar Serb) që në fakt emri i vërtetë i saj është Dardania Ilire, pra Shqipëria e pa coptar. Nuk kishte Serbi, kur kishte Dardani-Illiri dhe Pellazgi. Kjo video flet për afro 6000 vjet para Krishtit dhe besoj që Dardania është epiqendra e Shqiptarisë të sotme. Armiqt tanë Serb, e rrënuan Shqiptarizmin në Veri por Zoti i Math, na ndihmoi të ruajm gjuhën dhe etnogjenezn tonë ILIRE. Faleminderit.
Eshte shume e frikshme te heqesh kosove se gjithe veriu i shqipris ka zbritur nga kosova gjate konvertimit , pyetni mirditoret nga kan ardh te gjithe nga Kosova.
Our grandparents in Mat have told us that we are indigenous since the time of the great flood 12 thousand years ago, when the village was 400 meters higher, on the same level as the mountaintop today, and the entire area Mati was a flat plain 400 meters higher than today. This shows that we Albanians have been indigenous to our country since the time of the great flood of Noah's time, and we did not come from from elsewhere in the world. Our ancestors have made us proud with this true and very interesting story about our very distant and ancient roots. This story has been passed down from generation to generation. generation after generation, over centuries and millennia... We have also found steel tillage tools on top of the mountain 1800 meters high, from the time when the place was a plain at that height.. Tillage tools hidden, they are something special, because they are not rusty, they look like they are chromed black, and very different from today's artisanal tools for working the earth...
I have noticed that far too many hateful comment have accused this video for being propaganda and this have to stop. So from now on I will ban all account that use sama hateful comment from the channel! ✌️
You have not to worried "ChildrenOfTheEagle", GRAQIRET(I mean greec people) have more than 200years of manipulation about the historie. Albania & Albanians have been survived. Illyrian pennisula will be back very soon. Is our duty to not except anymore so called Balkan. Renamed ILLYRIAN pennisula bring back real historie of our land. God bless our land & beautiful Albanian language.
@@ozymandiasultor9480Criticism is one thing, but being a hateful racist and claiming the video of propagating something that a German institution have researched about is blatently ignorant. If you have any problems with the truth then write your complain to Max Planck Institut.
@@ozymandiasultor9480 you are too smart man. Only my littel dog is at your level of historie knowledges. I can't argue with you. Just wish you having more dreams.
Wow, it's amazing how diverse and rich the Albanian language is! It has such a fascinating history and beautiful expressions. 🌟🇦🇱 A lot of experts lately are saying that the language is 7,000 years old , making it the oldest language in Europe! I believe that. Good job, keep it going 👍🏼
The Heggarty paper cited in this video is considered to be wrong by most linguists. This video is ethnonationalist propaganda based on fringe science. Also, it doesn't make any sense to say a language is "the oldest" or "thousands of years old", because every language in the world is basically equally old. Every language is the result of transmission from one generation to the next as "the same language", but within a few generations or a few centuries languages change into new languages depending on many factors. Whether it's 7000 years or 5000 or 4000 or whatever, that number doesn't represent how old Albanian is. It represents when an ancestor language of Albanian split from a common ancestor. Latin was spoken over 2000 years ago, but that doesn't make Spanish 2000 years old. And whenever the precursors to Albanian split from the rest of IE, that doesn't show when Albanian split from all the intervening languages, like stages of Illyrian or whatever. Identifying some ancestor of Albanian from 7000 years ago doesn't make it "older" than any other language in Europe or anywhere else in the world, because all the other IE languages following that split would also trace back to that same split 7000 years ago. In other words, German, English, Russian are also 7000 years old in the same sense. But please forget this random nonsense number "7000", because that is simply the claim of one recent scientific publication that is not accepted by other linguists. It is very likely to be wrong. To understand this better, let's say hypothetically that human language started 100,000 years ago and all existing languages trace back to one or more languages from that time. We really do NOT know when it started, so this is just hypothetical. That means that Albanian is 100,000 years old according to your thinking. But it also means that every other language in the world is 100,000 years old. Yes, Albanian is a great and unique language and culture, just like every other language and culture in the world, but you don't need pseudoscientific ethnonationalist propaganda to prove that. Yes, Albanian, Hellenic, Armenian and Tocharian are special because they are on branches of IE that separated before the major expansion of IE in the Corded Ware era. Any scientist will agree with that basic fact. You don't need idiotic pseudoscientific claims about "oldest" blah blah blah to be proud of your language and culture for any reason you choose to.
@@MikeInliters My brother you sound kinda jealous to me and it’s okay I understand. Everyone been jealous with our history, national heroes and divine language.😊 I appreciate your perspective, but I believe it's important to explore and appreciate the historical roots of languages, including Albanian. While it may be debated, the claim of Albanian being over 7000 years old offers insight into its rich linguistic heritage. Let's celebrate the diversity of languages and cultures without diminishing their significance. 🌍🇦🇱🎉💗
@@MikeInlitersI dont think I would undermine the video with an ultranationalist label! I dont see such tendency. While you are right about numbers, we know that as you mentioned Albanian split from the greek-armenian branch befote they did, making it and older spoken separate tongue btw the three!
Albania is an autochthonous people that has been fighting for its freedom and independence for centuries against enemies and oppressors of all kinds: the Albanians: Through all the struggles and all the historical upheavals, this people has retained its originality; Neither the migration of peoples nor the battles with Serbs, Turks and other conquerors and oppressors were able to prevent the Albanians from maintaining their uniqueness pure and unadulterated in race and language, in customs and manners. Historian - Hanslörg Frommer Today only the Albanians, with their independent language, see themselves as descendants of the Illyrians. Historian -Theodor Mommsen was a German historian and is considered one of the most important antiquarians of the 19th century. The only Nobel Prize winner for literature. The brave ones from Eperius are the Albanians from antiquity, loyal, courageous traditional people whose flag has always been their eagle. Karl Kaser - historian Sees today's Albanians as the descendants of the remaining non-Omanized Illyrian population. To support his view, he cites results from Albanian archeology and linguistics Johann Georg von Hahn Josef ritter von xylander historian These two represent the thesis of the autochthonous nature of today's Albanians, which is linked to the Pelasgian question. The Albanians have a language completely different from that of the Latins, Greeks and Slavs, so they cannot communicate in any way with other peoples". Historian - Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer There is a people on the Illyrian Peninsula whose language, in its structure and core, bears not the slightest resemblance to either Greek, Turkish or the Slavic dialects spoken today in most of the South Danube countries.
(Arber) Is Of Norman Origin (Arberit) Is Of Norman Origin (Ngirterre) Is Of Norman Origin[Girter] (Skarpar) Is Of Norman Origin . (Kleu) is Of Norman Origin (Sindak) Is Of Norman Origin (Sin dak). (Kam) is of Norman Origin (Kriet) is Of Norman Origin. (Radhju) is Of Norman Origin . (Shum) Is Of Norman Origin. (Kanoj) is Of Norman Origin. (Alampu) Is Of Norman Origin. (Buhet) Is Of Norman Origin. (Here) Is Of Norman Origin. (Shkome) Is Of Norman Origin [Skome] . (Atentu) Is Of Norman Origin. (Skogha) Is Of Norman Origin. (Jarrejem) Is Of Norman Origin. (Qanet) Is Of Norman Origin [Ganet] . (Gjithe) Is Of Norman Origin (Krijuesi) is Of Norman Origin (Cikughat) Is Of Norman Origin [cikugrat]
"It is virtually impossible to see through the various strata in the Albanian language to discover any particular ancient ethnic origin." "As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
Lamartine: "Albanians, this nation and this people can not be mocked ... This is the land of heroes of all time ... Homer found there Achilles, the Greeks the Alexander the Great, Turks found Skanderbeg, people these of the same race, the same blood" . Maurico Druon, secretary of the French Academy: "Albanians belonging to those people older than History itself. Albanian grandparents participated in the war of Troy, led by Achilles (on one side) and Hector (the other side) ". Nicolas Iorga: "The Albanian people together and the Basques one are the oldest in Europe." Maximilian Lambertz: "The true History of the humanity will be written only when it will be written with the participation of Albanians". Huacunthe Hecquard: "In no country in the world women are not more respected and does not exercise a powerful activity than Albanian women, some Albanian mothers ousted from home their children because left the war front. They had returned them to the battlefield". Lord Byron: "Albanians with their costumes make a most wonderful scenery in the world ... Albanians are the most beautiful human race exists, courageous, stronger than their strongholds." Henry Noel Brailsford: "... The 'primitive' Albanian, in fact is the superhuman," of which Nietzsche dreamed." Giuseppe Katapano: "Atlantida which disappeared 12,000 years ago, was the land of the Illyrians (Pelasgians), who escaped the flood of Atlantis and began new civilizations on all continents, especially in Europe, Africa and Small Asia small". Agostino Ribeco: "The millennial Albanians Rights, ethnographic and geographic range from old times in Illyria, Macedonia and Thessaly." Branislav Nušić: "Albanians are indigenous, who during all invasions of peoples kept its type and character significantly. They faced attacks by Romans, dense Slavs raids, who invadet them all fields, plains, and rivers ". H. Dusko Konstantinov: "Albanians are the oldest inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula and direct descendants of the Illyrians, who had built the most powerful state in the Balkans." Edvin Jacques: "The Illyrians or Albanians, these stalwart warriors were Albanians, heirs of Achilles, Philip, Alexander the Great and the Piros of Epirus ...". Edvin Pears: "Albanians are descendants of the oldest race of the Balkan Peninsula, namely the Aryan race, to draw this word from two Albanian roots of words: Gold and side, which i.e. people of pure gold." Max Myle: "The names of of most familiar people derived from the old Albanian word 'Ar'. This also applies to many other countries of the world." Fanulla Papazogllu: "Dardania is one of the ancient Balkan provinces where the indigenous population is the best preserved." Jen Goss: "The origin of the Albanians to the time of Pelazgs and have pre-helen origin." Gustav Meier: "Albanians are young Illyrians". George Hahn: "Albanians are descendants of Illyrians, but the descendants of the Illyrians were Pelasgians ... Albanians are grandchildren of Pelasgians". Haki Pasha: "If the Albanian history emerges, the Ottoman Empire will go to the river". Harold Whitehal: "Egyptian hieroglyphics, created 4,000 years ago have Albanian significance". Henri Braisford: "In Macedonia, Albanians are the only indigenous people." Johan von Han: "The Albanian derives from Illyrian and the Illyrian from Pellasgian one". Jovan Cvijiq: "South Slavs, after arrived in the Balkans, found there the Albanians, who under their pressure (Slavs) retreated southward and to most mountainous areass, where we face today." Konstantin Paparigopulos: "Only the Albanians are considered descendants of the Illyrian race
They discover that erth is flat,like a plate,i recommend to stop using drugs,the best dealers of drugs around europe,check the video from 1991 , thousands of Albanian hunging in a ship like grapes to escaping in Italy,this is there heritage
@@ilirianbardhi7901 ohh , you mean like a Serb who is MVP of NBA league, or like Serb who is MVP of Euro league, or like a Serb who is NO1 tennis player in the world, or like Serbs who are Olympics, World and European champion in water polo, or like Serbs who are, men and women basketball Olympic, World and European champions, or like a Serbs, men and women volleyball Olympic, World and European champions, or like Serb Milorad Chavich swimming champion, or like Serb football U19 team who is champion of Europe 2013 , or like Serb football team U21 who are World champions 2015, or like Serbian women who won contest Eurovision, or like Serbian 3x3 basketball team who is 6 time world champions, or Serbs who won handball silver medal, or like world famous scientists Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milankovich and Mihajlo Pupin, yes it's hard to be a Serbs, it's easier to be Albanian 🐏🐑🐐 fcccker
Love for Albania and all Albanians 🇳🇱❤️🇦🇱 History as it is now needs to be revised and corrected. I've been redding that Alexander the Great is Albanian legacy as Albanians were partially called Macedonian up untill the late Medival times; next to Arberia, Dardania en Epiria. This is incredible. These facts need to be displayed
"So while linguists may debate about the ties between Albanian and older languages of the Balkans, and while most Albanians may take the genealogical connection to Illyrian as incontrovertible, the fact remains that there is simply insufficient evidence to connect Illyrian, Thracian, or Dacian with any language, including Albanian" Curtis, Matthew Cowan (30 November 2011). Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence. p. 18
WOW Amazing‼️ The veil is slowly lifting. The genetic make-up of Albanians are indeed native to the Balkans for at least 6,000 years! Great and informative video 🔥
The ludicrous chart at 12'40' contrasting the Greek words with the Albanian diction and the Homeric one is hilariously misleading through either ignorance or wishful cherry-picking. The Greek word “nero”, for instance, actually stems from the ancietnt Greek adjective “νεαρόν» (nearon) meaning fresh, as in νεαρόν ύδωρ ( nearon hydor) = fresh water. Νεμέας (Nemeas) does not mean "curse" in Homeric Greek, but it refers to the area of Nemea in the Peloponesse, steming from the ancient and modern Greek root νέμειν=nemein, which means to distribute, to seperate, to share out. It is still used in Greek in many derivatives like διανέμω, οικονομία (the fair distribution/order of the home), Νεμεσις, απονέμω, etc... Γορός does not mean knee, but is an adjective meaning "bent". The Homeric woed for knee is "γόνυ", modern greek γόνατον, with the particle γο- refering to anything that bends or makes a sharp turn as in γωνία (gonia) = corner, angle. Either maliciously or ignorantly you pose the greek word thymos (anger) against the Ηomeric word "Mηνίω", without mentioning the modern/ancient word μένος/menos, which also means "anger"and the derivative of "μηνύω", used to this day by Greeks to mean to "charge someone with a crime". Even the accents are wrong in your text. Other words in the chart are also falsely represented to accommodate the wishful thinking of their authors. "Vrotos", for instance, is not a verb, but an adjective meaning "mortal, perishable, like in modern Greek "trotos" τρωτός. The listed word "γριά" is the modern Greek rendering of Homeric "γραία" and it does not mean "married woman" but "old woman". "Gynaika" means "woman" from the declention of the ancient Greek "gynee" γυνή.. In Homeric Greek the word would have been "γυνή γαμήτις", or simply "γυνή". "Βοή" is wrongly rendered as "thrino" (to mourn), whereas to this day, as in Homeric times, it meant "any loud cry or continual noise sound" as in modern Greek "βουητό" (prolonged noise) and βους = cow (due to its moaning sound), and it has survived in the compound of modern Greek as "βοήθεια" = to cry out to the divine (θείον) for assistance. You see, the derivatives of these Homeric roots function only in Greek, not in Albanian, the latter probably having borrowed and mispronounced many Greek words, as less developed neighbors often do... At the end of the day, it does not matter which language is the “oldest”, but which language has had the greatest impact on the world through its compilation of ideas and etymology. And this language is incontestably found in the Hellenic branch, whose script is the oldest of all European languages.. Besides, speaking of "script"..., there are no written records of Albanian before the 13th century of our common era. Any similarities between Homeric Greek and Albanian may very well be attributed to the cultural-linguistic influence of the more advanced Greeks on their more primitive northern neighbours, or even a common Indo-European root, the latter of which theory is just that: theoretical... Tell your quasi-paralinguists to stop feeding their delusions with ill-founded nationalistic wishful thinking, claiming that Achilles is a Pelasgian who spoke Albanian as the ahistorical Slavs to the north of Macedonia claim Alexander to be theirs.
I just love it when articulated people like you use fancy word to disclaime that Albanian language doesn't have a written record before the 13th century, yet fancy studies like the one mentioned in the video - not to mentioned the Harvard language study, smashes meager attempt like your's. Given you consider Albanien language as being primitiv and Greek language as more advanced, it's pretty safe to conclude that you're not that fond of Albanian history and that's ok. I don't mind! As for the Homeric words I provided - and 2,000 other words I haven't - is pretty remarkable that 2,700-ish years later theses words are still used by Albanians. Aaha yeah.. Achilles. Did you know that Greeks, not sure if Homer did, used to call him Aspetos? In Albanien Gheg 'A i shpejt' or 'I shpejt o' means - He is fast. In the Iliad he's mentioned numerous times as being fast and unkillable, hence the nickname 'the fast one' or 'swift-footed''. The same goes for the word Achilles.. In Albanien Gheg, 'Ach i let o' , means 'He is so light'. Just for the fun of it, what does Aspetos mean in Greek?
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for exposing your ignorance and your "selective" etymology of Greek words. Unfortunately for you, apart from us Greeks, there are reputed, world-renowned linguists who have compiled dictionaries of ancient and modern Greek. Here is the dictionary entrance for "aspetos" in Liddel & Scott dictionary and in every ancient Greek dictionary throughout the world that reveals your ignorance: ἄσπετος: -ον (εἰπεῖν), from the negational Greek particle "α-" and ειπείν (to say/tell), meaning ανείπωτος (that which cannot be expressed in words, unspeakable), ανέκφραστος (undescribable), απερίγραπτα μεγάλος (indescribably great), σε Όμηρ.· ουδ. ως επίρρ., ἀνείπωτα, σε Ομήρ. Ιλ. It is a derivative of the irregular greek verb "λέγω" (to say), and is used to this very day in Greek in forms like "είπα" (I said), "τι είπες;" (what did you say?). In short, the word "aspetos" (unspeakable) has nothing to do with one who runs fast, which is "ωκύπους" in the Iliad, from ωκύς=fast and πους/πόδι=foot, i.e. "fast-footed Achilles". Mr "Children of the Eagle", I happen to be a linguist who has studied both in Grece and abroad, and can provide you with any information regarding the Greek language and the non-existence of any Albanian substantial script before the 13th or even the 15th century. I can also assure you that without Greek words in your language, you would not be able to communicate in the modern world. The very word "history", that you so like to use, is a derivative of the Greek irregular verb "οίδα", which means "to know": αρχ. ἱστορία < ἵστωρ < εἰδέναι του οἶδα "γνωρίζω". And yes, I am very fond of history. That is why I can reveal your ignorance. You may collect as many cudos as you wish from your equally ignorant followers, but there will always be facts and educated people to descredit all your nonsense. You have been exposed! (PS. Please provide us with any literature or writing in Albanian prior to the 15th century...)
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle My friend, as a Greek myself with family from Asia Minor, Athens and Cyprus, I support the Albanian people and all efforts to preserve and discover your history as I know how important it is. My Cypriot family lost their homes from the Turkish invasion and were made refugees, their graves and towns desecrated and "removed" from history, so I can empathise with the Albanian people. However, what I will say is please do not try to raise one thing up by trying to diminish another thing, as you are hinting at with the age and "importance" of the Albanian language compared to Greek. There are some mistakes in your video about certain words as well as logical fallacies regarding the omission of certain ancient Greek words in modern Greek. There is much to be proud about that does not require comparison or competition using other languages and cultures to measure the greatness of your own. Please keep this in mind with all due respect. 🇦🇱🇨🇾🇬🇷🇦🇲
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle My friend It's ridiculous to etymologise 100 Greek words of Homer but not the total of 8-9 thousands Greek words that Homer used. It is known that not only Albanian and Slavs but all the world adopted thousands of Greek words. I'm a historian ikr 👍
@hrvatskiapoksiomen9 Given that the complete Homeric lexical dictionary, which consisted of around 8844 word in total, whereas roughly 7000 of these word were actively used, I'm baffled where you get 20-30 thousands of Homeric words from?
As a historian i have to tell you that you do the same mistake that some slavs (Serbians and Vardarskans) do. You try to etymologise Greek words that Albanians, Slavs and rest of the world adopted from Greeks and Homer used. And i ask them the same question: "Why you etymologise only 1 or 2 hundreds Greek words that Homer used and albanians adopted and not the total of 8-9 thousands Greek words that Homer used"?
But if Slavs and Albanians took these words from Homer why is it that today only Albanians use words such as anger, water, earth, star, mountain, etc. from 13:02 but somehow Southern Slavs and Modern Greeks do not use these words. This would mean there is continuity from Homer to Albanian, but not from Homer to Modern Greek or Southern Slavic.
@@Henrik_channel Let's be specific. For example etymologise this original Homer's text , word by word: Homer's Iliad, Rhapsody M, Line 243: "Είς οιωνός άριστος, αμύνεσθαι περί πάτρης" (Hector's saying: Eis oionos aristos amynesthai peri patris= the best sign is to fight for your country) When i give specific original quotes to my slav compatriots who claim also Homer they sh@t up If you cant etymologise all Homer's phrases but you Cherrypick selectively a couple of words, is because you adopted thousands Greek words like every people did
I never thought i would see such an impressive semi documentary. It was well produced and it was objective and fact based, not from the Albanian academy (which have sold their souls to those who don't want the these documentaries to come out) but from foreign studies which makes even more credible.
As an amateur historian I am confused. I don’t say this to be rude or inconsiderate, but from an earnest place of curiosity. Is modern Albanian the language of the Illyrians? The Albans were an asiatic people not related to the Illyrians, who moved in during the Middle Ages. Did they adopt Illyrian, or did the Illyrians adopt the language of the Albans? Either way, if the Albans replaced Illyrian with the oldest Indo European language or the other way around it’s still a fascinating reality.
There is no evidence of ancient albaniian language. Nada. Zero. Not even one ancient albanian coin. Zero evidence of ancient albanian scripts. Where is this ancient albanian language hidden? Tell us one ancient albanian scholar. Who and what did he write?
@@alexandroscomingaftermonke596 that is not the question. There were a group of people called the Albans and they were from the eastern steps of what is now Russia. They had a language and it was probably similar to Slavic/Bulgarian. Then there were the Illyrians who had a distinct language. Their language was probably most closely related to Greek and/or Thracian or some form of proto Greek from Asia Minor. So then what is modern Albanian and what is its closest relation to its historic roots?
@@the_watcher_abc Illyrians were not certain ethnicity. There is no evidence of Illyrian language and there is no Illyrian DNA. Illyria was just an area with tribes. The dominant one after 7th century BC were the Greeks. That's why in today Albania there are ONLY evidence of ancient Greek scripts. 70.000 ancient Greek scripts (inscriptions, coins, steeles, etc ) found so far in albania Most of the ancient monuments and cities are Greek. Albanians are desperate to disappear them 😂 lmao
@@the_watcher_abc what kind of historians are you ? A serbian one, because there is not one doccument saying that albans moved to europe during the middle ages, your a historian as well as someone who says he is a scientific but believing the earth is flat Look up genetic studies you ignorant we know you are a greek or a serb
I have been rooting for the Fertile Crescent mainly because of archeology, DNA and folklore. For example we know based on genetics and linguistic studies Albanian is an early language, based on archeology we also know people have lived in that region for millennia so that leaves the folklore to fill in the gaps. Well according to the ancient epic songs carried over from generation to generation as oral history especially amongst the highlanders we know Albanians were told by their ancestors that they came to those lands via the Black Sea before Black Sea existed. Based on geology we know that Black Sea was created about 8000 years ago and that's just too early for Yamnaya.
Going in to this project in notised how much politicalized this topic really is. Right of the bat the internet is filled with Proto-Indo-European language and Yamnaya theory, which by the way considers the Albanian language as non-existent and claiming that the Albanian language settled in the Balkans in the 12th century AD. It's this particular camp that pushes their political agenda to undermin and demonize the Albanian heritage.
Speaking of folklore. I was watching a documentary about Dibra region and the guide who was very knowledgeable about the region's history was saying-'sometimes history is much better preserved through folklore as it goes from one generation to another, than the writings, which can be lost due to many reasons' or even manipulated as we've seen sometimes. And, Albanians are known to sing songs, either in their northern ballads or southern polyphony about every event that they've had, which is still being practiced to this day.
@sokoli3253 It is actually quite interesting why Alexander chose to conquer Asia and not Europe. Some historians say that the land he conquered once belonged to ancient Albanians. If so then it's no surprising why.
"The language of the Albanians is unformed and adulterated. In many areas Italian elements have been incorporated into the language, in others Greek and in others Slavonic. Therefore Albanians who live fifty or sixty miles apart do not understand each other. In addition, there are racial differences between the Gegs who live in the wild north and the Tosks in the less rugged south. One would say that they belong to different ethnicities. And indeed this is the case. It would be easy to prove that the Albanians are not one people but half a dozen peoples." Sir John Foster Fraser, "Pictures from the Balkans", CHAPTER XXIV. THE ALBANIANS, p. 257-258)
So where and who do you believe these distinct Albanian groups mentioned in this paragraph are and originate from? Do you think they have lived there centuries before Christ?
@@universalconquest4447 "From place names, we know that Slavic settlements were also widespread throughout Albania, and it can be assumed that the Slavs came to form the majority population in the region for several centuries." "The early urban settlements founded along the coast were initially populated by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and were later inhabited by Venetians, Byzantine Greeks, southern Slavs, Italian traders, and even Jews. It was only in the Ottoman period that Albania really became Albanian in an ethnic sense, and it was first in the twentieth century that the Albanians created an independent state of their own. Thus, for many centuries, the history of Albania had little or nothing to do with the Albanian people. They were but one stone in a great mosaic. In this sense, the history of Albania comprises much more than the history of the Albanians." "As has been noted above, the first millennium of Albanian history had little to do with the Albanian peoples themselves. As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
@@vangelisskia214 1) If Albanians were just a mixture of Greeks and Romans then their language would be a mixture of Greek and Latin but instead they have an authentic language with root words that differ from Greek and Latin. 2) Albanians were mentioned as a group in the 11th century AD, which is fairly early considering that most modern European nationalities developed centuries later. 3) All ethnic groups are melting pots of different people and tribes.
@@universalconquest4447 The Albanian language has a huge amount of Latin and Greek derived vocabulary. This is a fact. There is indeed a grammatic basis from another language, but there is no expert linguist that can claim with certainty whether that basis is from Ilyrian, Thracian, Dacian or from another distinct ancient language alltogether. So, there is no definitive proof that Albanian derives from ancient Illyrian.
@@universalconquest4447 You speak of Albanians during the 11th century as a group and then compare this with modern nationalities?! Albanians were only an ethnic group and never a nation until only a 100 years back. Btw the Greek, Armenian and Persian ethnic groups (among others) preexisted the Albanian for some... 1500 years...
The meaning of the words inside the words... Faleminderit...i falem nderit Dashuroj...dashni uroj Lumturoj...lum të roj jetoj...lum si ty...të lumtë...😊😊
Allahu i shperblefte prof. Rasel Gray, Paul Hagertly nga instituri Max Plank Gjermani dhe Elena Kocaqi per kete pune te vleftshme per origjinen e gjuhes Shqipe!! Respekt!
@@lulzimthaci6356 Për ty ësht! Në qoft se je arba ik në arabi. Shqiptaret e kan gjuhen e vet hynore dhe nuk ju duhet gjuha arabit! Po ti je i pa ditur dhe shkon si miza mbas mutit.
"It has been reported that at the end of the 20th century some Christian Albanians still used the term "TURK" to refer to Muslim Albanians." Matvey Lomonosov, "On Albanian Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire", Porta Balkanica, vol. 5, 2013, p.12
Flood wiped out prior civilization and from 2,348 BC and we had a reset. EV13 links to tribe of Japeth entering Southwest Europe (aka balkan) everything else is fantasies. Civilization starts with Sumer/Babylon where there is an explosion of different languages and writing system since. Albanians, with no records of having a writing system kept language closer to mother tounge hence Albanian is older then Greek or Armenian. This is the reason why many suggest adn think Albanian is the first language. There is none live older than that.
Norbert JOKL :"" The Albanian lanGUAge serves as a fiber that keeps the trunk alive and connetct this branches with roots. As you descent along this fiber to the wonders of history, strands can be affectedt. The Albanian language is a tool through which the seeker can illuminate the dawn of Albanian people's beginnings and immerse themselves in time that goes beyong the historical evidence "". NEPHILIM / NE FILLIM = THE BEGINNINGS
"Scholars agree that Illyrian was Indo-European, but it is unclear whether we are dealing with one or several different Indo-European idioms. We also LACK DEFINITIVE PROOF that Illyrian, in any of its possible forms, is the ancestor of modern Albanian, as is widely assumed today." "Much has been written and speculated about the origins of the Albanian people. From their language, we know that they are Indo-Europeans, and they seem to be native to the southern Balkans. However, whether or not they stem directly from the ancient Illyrians, as is widely assumed by the modern Albanians, or from the Dacians or Thracians or some other ancient Balkan people or peoples, IS VERY MUCH OPEN TO QUESTION." "However, we KNOW TOO LITTLE about the Illyrian language TO PROVE A CONNECTION linguistically, and THIS IS A CRUCIAL DEFICIT." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
@@ChildrenOfTheEagleThe recent study by the Max Planck Institute presents a *hypothesis* rather than definitive proof regarding the origins and evolution of Indo-European languages, including Albanian. And it has yet to be accepted into mainstream linguistics by trained linguists. You act like you have some kind of ground breaking evidence, but in reality it's still very much obscure and the sad reality is that we'll never know for sure.
@@ChildrenOfTheEagleI hope that doesn't hurt your fragile ego. Since Albania is a small, poor and insignificant country that barely gets any attention on the global scale, it is obvious that many Albanians feel the need to cope. Their coping mechanism consists of referring to the past in order to make themselves look better. Yet the country actually has absolutely nothing to offer.
@@Odoxon7522 The Max Planck Institute's study is groundbreaking, and many universities are now taking it into account. The fact that it was published in Science - a journal known for its rigorous standards - should speak for itself. But trying to dismiss it as just a hypothesis and use it against me seems a bit childish, so no, it really doesn't hurt my feelings. I've actually followed up the study since it was pulished, and the more I read about it, the more I find that the strongest opposition comes from two main group of people: Serbs and Greeks. Now considering that both Serbia and Greece have historically divided Albanian lands between them, it really doesn't come as a surprise that you also oppose the study. Since you seem skeptical of the study, I suggest you write a complaint to the Max Planck Institute and the 80+ linguists involved, and explain why you think their results are not accepted by mainstream linguists.
Very proud that the facts are coming up. Most of our history was destroyed and burnt down, to erase the truth. History should not be destroyed, instead, it should be protected. It's a fact that our language is older than the Greek, but this should not hurt anybody's feelings. It is what it is. Past is past, present is present. Thank you Sir, for your precise work, as always! Peace!
E verteta del dikur… Me mire vone se kurre… Nuk ka asgje per tu mburrur Ose per Te ardhur turp nga asnje anë. Historine e shkruajne fitimtaret dhe zhdukin çdo prove te historise te kombit. Mos harro qe me shume mund u morë pavaresia dhe shume here u mundua te te rimeren territore nga fqinjet. Çdo zbulim arkeologjik u vodh u quajt I zbuluar diku tjeter etj. Vazhdo dhe beso cfare te duash.Keshilla ime eshte dysho gjithshka sepse çdo gje qe na kane mesuar deri sot eshte e mbushur plote me genjeshtra.Kjo vlen per gjithe boten jo vetem per Shqiperine. Tu-ngjat-jeta.
@dom8929 There has been a study lately, which uses carbon methods to trace back and find out for how long has been a certain language spoken. www.google.com/search?q=the+latest+study+in+sience.org+determines+how+old+are+languages&client=ms-android-samsung-gn-rev1&sca_esv=570352775&sxsrf=AM9HkKkIi9MFAW9htHzwO80iDjL7w0S2DA%3A1696360195631&ei=A2ccZe6KJrjZ7_UPoJWPkAE&oq=the+latest+study+in+sience.org+determines+how+old+are+languages&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIj90aGUgbGF0ZXN0IHN0dWR5IGluIHNpZW5jZS5vcmcgZGV0ZXJtaW5lcyBob3cgb2xkIGFyZSBsYW5ndWFnZXNIujlQpxtY7DZwAXgBkAEAmAHiAqAByhSqAQcwLjkuNC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBwgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICBxAjGLACGCfCAgUQABiiBMICBBAhGAriAwQYACBBiAYBkAYI&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#imgrc=EI6mqdluRdArmM&imgdii=wjEfGA8a_vQtxM
I am not claiming that the Albanian language is the oldest language 😁, I am just saying that it is one of the oldest, and people need to know this fact. Also, in the Lin village of Pogradec, it has been found a Palafite, which is at least 2000 years older than what was the oldest known Palafite in the world, located in Switzerland 🇨🇭. The research team who made the study was Swiss crew from a well-known university. This Palafite in Albania dates back 6000 years before Christ.
Baron Nopcsa Ferenc was aspirant for the thron of Albania, he was from Hungary. Norbert Jokl was from Vienna, a great albanologist. Very important parallels. It would be interesting to catalogise the incoming words in different times from different languages. The industry-words such Stecker, Thermocentrale, and the words of the culture, and the different segments of the life. Best greetings from Vienna for these very informative compound.
genetically the EEF/Anatolian farmer folk are not the same as the peoples of the open steppe most associated with Indo-European, such as Yamnaya, Cimmerian, Scythian etc. The main haplogoup of these peoples seems to be R1b, of a R type haplogroup Y chromosome, where as the majority of EEF is G2a, such as we found in Otzi the Iceman. The early farmer folk I think likely spoke the pre-Indo-European language such as the Pelasgian, Etruscan and Rhaetian peoples, the later two likely being remnants of the early Po River culture of the Terramare etc. One thing we find in places is that the EEF folk, when the Steppe migrations brought these peoples together, the farmers moved up into the mountain areas away from the herdsman steppe peoples, so it well could be the Pelasgian are a remnant group of such peoples having moved up into the mountains of what is today Albania, is interesting to think on.
From what I have been reading too; the Albanian language is closest with the Messapic language which are both related to the Illyrian language, and from this video it seems Proto-Illyrian would have developed before Proto-Greek, and Proto-Thracian which makes sense since the Albanian language splits off 500 years before Greek did from Indo-European.
@ChildrenOfTheEagle My friend, Let's be specific. For example etymologise this original Homer's text word by word: Homer's Iliad, Rhapsody M, Line 243: "Είς οιωνός άριστος, αμύνεσθαι περί πάτρης" (Hector's saying: Eis oionos aristos amynesthai peri patris= the best sign is to fight for your country) When i give specific original quotes to my slav compatriots who claim also Homer they sh@t up If you cant etymologise all Homer's phrases but you Cherrypick selectively a couple of words, is because you adopted thousands Greek words like every people did
first you must show is this the original writing of homer or a restaurated version where words are changed to fit the meaning second i can give a meaning in albanian for that verse
@@Baracuda123-x1t Only albanians do this sh1t. Take the Greek words , twist them and f@ck them upside down and .... Voila .... albanian translation. Lets take the first 3 words: eis oionos aristos = the best sign .. You turned into esh .... with completely different meaning Plus albanians don't have alphabet. They use the latin one
@@Gamesbozz We are not talking about Europe. We are talking about albanians with ZERO evidence of ancient albanian language. With ZERO ancient albanian scholars
Obviously homer spoke and wrote ancient albanian language=translatable to nowadays albanian language.so your ancient "greek" scholars were albanians😉ps.you wouldnt have even an "own" an alphabet if you wouldnt have stolen it from the minoans,like you did with several other things in the balkans,inkluding your own"identity"😂
Well, There is no evidence of ancient albanian language whatsoever. Albanians don't even have an alphabet. They use the latin one We don't know any ancient albanian scholars so we dont know anything about language and scripts I'd like to see ancient albanian scripts, but unfortunately Zero
@@issavisisland9870Black Athena Ancient Greece Fabrication Black Athena is a book written by Martin Bernal, first published in 1987, which challenges the traditional view of ancient Greece as a purely European culture. The book argues that ancient Greek civilization was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic cultures, particularly ancient Egypt and the Phoenicians. Key Claims: The ancient Greeks knew that their civilization was derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. The “Aryan model” of Greek civilization, which posits that Greek culture was the result of the conquest of a native population by Indo-European speakers from the North, is a fabrication. The Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the 18th century, largely for racist reasons. Arguments: Bernal argues that the ancient Greeks themselves acknowledged the influence of Egyptian and Phoenician cultures on their own civilization. He points to the presence of Egyptian and Phoenician loanwords in the Greek language, as well as the similarity between Greek and Egyptian mythology and art. Bernal also argues that the idea of a “Greek miracle” - the notion that Greek civilization arose suddenly and spontaneously in the 8th century BCE - is a myth with no historical basis. The Greek language itself was not written in 700 B.C. but much more later as there were no Greek people during the time of Aleksandër the great who was Albanian.
Hey hey Nothing about Romanians Moldavians ? 😂 many of the words from the table are similiar in romanian 😂 also our languages are similar 😊😊😊 same ascensors 😊 love from Chisinau Moldova to Albania ❤
12:41 as a speaker of the Greek language, I want to point out that this is misinforming and I'll explain why. Starting off, it says that "Star" is Asteri in Greek, Yll in Albanian and Ήλιε/Ilie in ancient Greek. In ancient Greek, Ήλιε (or Ήλιος in the nominative case) means sun, not star. Star would be "Αστήρ/Aster". Another example, it says that "Κρατα/Krata" means "Arm", but Κρατα/Krata actually means strength (hence Kratos etc), the ancient word for arm is "βραχίων/brachion", from which the word "bratso" in the Greek translation is derived (Greeks borrowed "bratso" from the Italian "braccio", which comes from "βραχίων/brachion". Not even going to mention "Stab and Knife" which does translate to "Stabbing *with* knife", but the words used ("Machairoma", "machairi") come from another word root (from "μάχαιρα/machaira" which roughly means "long sword"), and not from the Homeric word that is mentioned. Same for the word "water", "nero" in the Greek translation comes from another word root (from "νήρον/neron" which means "fresh") and it started to come into use in later centuries, the proper word for water that was also used in ancient Greece is "ύδωρ/ydor". Also, the word "βροτος/Vrotos" does not translate to "Strike/kill". βροτος/Vrotos means mortal, and the modern Greek word for that is not "Skotono" (which isn't even a noun, it's a verb) as depicted in the video but "θνητός/thnitos". "Skotono" means "kill" and it is not even derived from the same word root as βροτος/Vrotos, it is derived from "Skotos" which in ancient Greek meant "Darkness". Finally, "Kefali" in Greek (Head) is also derived from another root, from "κεφαλή/kephale". In ancient Greek, the word for head was "κάρα/kara". There are so many mistakes it'd take forever to point them out. Let me clarify something, I like Albania! And I've been curious about Albanians' roots because the general scientific consensus is that Albanians' origins are not known (some people say they come from Illyrians, others say they are Slavs, others say they are Pelasgians and so forth), I have wanted to know since forever. I think Greece and Albania should be friends and I hold no hate against you. This comment is not meant to hate Albania or Albanians or the Albanian language guys, I just think this part of the video is incredibly misleading if not deliberate misinformation (12:41). Greetings from Greece :) ❤
What remains unclear in this lovely video is the connection between the Ev13 haplogroup (which os the most dominant haplogroup among Albanians), on one hand, and the Indo-Europeans , on the other. We can see in the video that the Ev13 migration is not the same as the Info-European migration to the Balkans. So which one got to the Balkans first, Ev13 or the Indo European.. Also, what happened to the oroginal language of the Ev13 migrants to the Balkans?
A legitimate question for once. While the Max Planck study points out that the Albanian language originally began south of the Caucasus sometime 8,100 years ago, the study does not rule out that the language may have migrated there at an earlier stage. If so, the movement of the genetic makeup of E-V13 shown at 08:05 could either mean that the Albanian language was spoken even earlier than the study suggests, or that the language took shape south of the Caucasus around 8,000 years ago. As for the "original language" of E-V13, it is very challenging to assigning the first language to the haplogroup. Either way, quite a remarkable discovery to say the least.
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle Thanx for the feed guys. You are doing a great job with these series. I am saying this as a marketer. The way an info is presented makes all the difference. Finally we have a nice professional presentation on Albanian culture Keep up the good work and get us some more presentations of this kind on other aspects of Albanian culture , especially the Kosovo Albanians who in my opinion preserved some of the original authentic ethnic Albanian traditions much more than the Albanians from Albania. It is ironic that the very word Albanian among non-Albanians immediately implies just the country of Albania and totally excludes Kosovo (Dardania), the heartland and the core of authentic Albanian traditions.
@Besajone1 Thank you so much for your appreciation. The passion i have for our peoples history, and the gratitude I get for the video's, have motivated me to make more and will continue to make them as long I'm able to, be that from all historical territories where Albanians have lived. As for Kosova.. the trilogy I'm currently working on will cover Adem and Hamza Jasharis battles from 1991-1998. A project that is personal and close at hart!
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle I am an Apbanian born and growing up among south slavs…Most were nice and respected Albanians but those stereotypes and discriminatory slur that I had to come across among some south slavs every now and then were really ugly and demotivating….but given that these anti-albanian discriminatory slur were direted on an Albanian, they only made me stronger throughout my childhood….I have a strong bind to Dardania. (my Mothers homeland) because I can fully understand the decades long discrimination… at least people of Dardania were a majority and they could lean on each other….On the other hand, we, Albanians that grew up among south slavs had this heavy burden of putting up with ugliest possible anyi-albanian slur every now and then….Most ironically, Albanians that grew up and still live in south slavic countries are absolutely forgotten and ignored by both Kosovo and Albania,s government and people…bcs. Albanians from south slavic countries are not as rich as those from Germany, Switzerland, USA. and other western countries… As politically incorrect that may sound, this is a bare truth… bit this too did not nor will kill our motivation to continue to guard and keep our identity and dignity.
"It is virtually impossible to see through the various strata in the Albanian language to discover any particular ancient ethnic origin." "As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
Albania and all Albanians I love you in deep respect and always will.From a British friend in London.
God save the king and his people 🇬🇧 Thank you verry much for your great support.
Zoti e ruajt mbretin dhe popullin e tij. Faleminderit shumë për mbështetjen tuaj të madhe.
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@@ChildrenOfTheEagle ti veq vazhdo shqipe mos u ndal !
Ne 2 emisione qe kisha par nje ishin gdhendur fjal shqipe ne muret e egjiptit sa qe tha shqipja dhe egjipti qenkan me te vjetra se greqishtja.
Dhe nje tjeter shkuan ca amerikan ne nje shpell te virgjer shum te medhe, dhe ne mur shum thell tokes ishte gdhendur 2 shkronja nje e huaj, dhe nje L e madhe e dores qe vetem shqipja e shkran ate gerem, vetem kur than kete shkronje se njohim
1.Fjalet shqip jan gjetur ne te gdhendurat e egjiptit!
2. Ne nje shpell te pa vizituar prej njerzve shum thell posht tokes u gjet L e madhe e dores, sa than kete shkronje se njohim
@@jetonbalidemaj Respekt 🤝🤝
Shumë falemenderit per kto punime. Po na frymëzojnë. Le ta die bota qfar kontribute te rrendsishem kan bo stregjshët tonë se ka t'boje jo veq me ne po me krejt njerzimin. Me shkenc, teknologji, akademi dhe art e verteta del ne dritë ndal kadale. Nji kafe a ke prej meje. ☕
"The true History of the humanity will be written only when it will be written with the participation of Albanians". - Maximilian Lambertz
Të falem nderit për kontributin tuaj dhe më gëzon që të pëlqeu videoja! Të përshëndes përzemërsisht!
Danke! Vazhdo me punën që ke nisur. Së bashku jemi një!
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@@ChildrenOfTheEagleWhat do you mean by that finger exactly?
If you know how to count but maybe you don’t, you could guess that it’s the number one that the hand symbolises…
As a Greek, I deeply admire Albanians and take pride in our Balkans, the birthplace of many ancient, influential cultures. My own research, consistent with the Max Planck study, suggests that Armenian, Greek, and Old Balkan languages (including Albanian) are among the oldest branches of Proto-Indo-European, possibly predating languages like Ancient Egyptian and Sumerian.
However, Elena Kokaqi's interpretations appear flawed. The citation around 12:10 may misleadingly imply that Homer’s language was predominantly Albanian and that Modern Greek is disconnected from Homeric Greek. This view is often perceived as Albanian propaganda by international scholars and literate audiences. Even if Albanian preserved more Homeric roots than Modern Greek, it’s likely due to Modern Albanian being another distinct branch of Homeric Greek, potentially more conservative than Modern Greek. Alternatively, shared roots could represent loanwords within an otherwise independent Albanian language.
The table at around 13 minutes is totally inaccurate, suggesting either misunderstanding or a political motive:
γορός appears in Aeschylus but as a spelling variant of γυρός ('rounded, curved, crooked', not "knee")-a word still used in Modern Greek with the same meaning. Compare γυρoς, 'gyros', the typical Greek street food prepared to form a rounded grilled meet, 'gyro-', etc.).
μηνίω (not μηνιώ) is a verb meaning "to cherish wrath," with no equivalent ending (ω) in Albanian but in Modern Greek. Albanian mënia resembles μανία (mania), 'madness, mania, frenzy' in both Ancient and Modern Greek, but lacks fidelity in form.
βοή still means "loud cry, the murmur of a crowd" in Modern Greek (compare βοή-θεια 'aid called for, succour'), and θρῆνος also retains its meaning.
I could point out several errors in every line of the table. The table generally disregards apparent Modern Greek cognates of Ancient Greek words. It replaces them with Modern Greek synonyms of different etymological origins, misleadingly suggesting a break between Greek's Ancient, Medieval, and Modern stages.
Moreover, other significant misinterpretations persist. For instance, γραῖα and γρια, both meaning 'old woman', and ἥλιος ('sun') exist in both Ancient and Modern Greek with the same spellings and meanings. Ms. Kokaqi’s alignment of ἥλιος ('sun') with Modern Greek αστέρι ('star') over Modern Greek ἥλιος ('sun') seems arbitrary, while the Albanian yll, and all the other dubious Albanian "cognates" in column 2 remain distinct in spelling, sound and meaning.
Thank you for this otherwise informative and highly valuable video!
Elena Kocaqi is a charlatan who appeals to the deepest ultranationalist feelings of Albanians and provides them with pseudo intellectual/linguistic connections.
There is a heavy influence of Ancient Greek in Modern Albanian but that is never studied thoroughly and never by Greek and Albanian native speakers, but mostly by foreigners with limited knowledge of AG and even more limited of predecessor of Modern Albanian. The most comprehensive work I have seen of that Vladimir Orel, but he didn’t speak Albanian either.
The Hellenization of South Illyrian tribes, some in part, others in full has never been taught in Albanian schools. Also there there is no explanation on how the dialectical split happened and how the Hellenization turned to Latinization of language. From both dialects, the most accurate pertaining the AG borrowings into Albanian is the Gegh.
What modern Albanians are missing is the equivalent of Paparigopoulos, leaving pseudo intellectuals like Kocaqi fill the void.
@@MSPANAKIS Modern greeks are arrvanit white albanian and balck turk that some give them a country and told them that you are greek how come that check your history and dna and we can discus further more
Hellenism has not rubbed off on most of the barbarians surrounding Hellas .......... mostly because they refuse to educate thus, civilize themselves. You can't reason with idiots !!! ;)
Thanks Mr. Spanakis. There are a few personalities, self proclaimed scientists who have literally disgraced us with the amount of stubidity they spread. Ironically, mrs. Kocaqi would have been Vorioipirotissa (greek minority) according to the definition (from south, greek first/last names) but spreads some of the greatest stubidities about the greek art, language, history etc. Since I speak both greek and albanian, I believe though that your comment is pretty accurate, the two languages seems to have been interacting with each other from the very ancient times. For example: Jam = Hmi, Je = ei, Eshte = esti are in modern albanian close to the ancient greek. Words such as Qeni = Kunos, Mi = Mus, Dielli = Deili (Hlios vs Ouranos) exist also.
Questo video è orgoglio degli albanesi. La verità viene sempre a galla. 👌🇦🇱👋🇮🇹
Grazie ❤
Qfar lidhje ka aj flamur Italiane me Shqiptaret se nuk kuptoj? Je bythlupise a qka? Po kush leshin Jan ata pica koqet qe behesh si zagar ndaj tyre
Respect for you 🤝🇮🇹
hi deborah, do you know meaning of Deborah?
@@sokolasllani5006 io arbereshe.🦅🇦🇱🦅❤👋🇮🇹
My ancestors came from Albania
Pershendetje meso shqip nese nuk di te kuptosh sekretin qe gjuha shqipe fshe ne fjalet e saja
@@arberilir3989if are you happy every body happy
Not all People are perfect
@@Traderjoe You will always have some Albanian genes. Whoever you are, I am sure you are e person of heart values!❤️
Albanian language is definitely one of the oldest languages in the world. Beautiful language, culture and history.
Amazing video! Our language needs far more attention, one of the oldest languages to still exist today! Proud!
True, after so many years, were people laughed at us, when we told them our language is very old, science should put more work in it and show the public the truth
True👏🏼 , so proud that I can speak Albanian!
@@ozymandiasultor9480 you sound ignorant lol
@@ozymandiasultor9480salty 🧂
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I don’t want us Albanians to be the best or better than anyone else but I am glad that money is spent to help us find our true position in human history even though they tried to wipe us out we managed to save our language which perpetuates who we are.
Wow , I have great respect for all 🇦🇱 Albanians..
Relax you are not alone another 161 indoeuropean languages managed to do the same check the video links for details.
@@georgegiallousis4400 lol definitely not.
@@georgegiallousis4400 So if they find Greek writing or Latin writing in Albania means they never used writing,I don’t think so but I think because they were part of the Roman Empire they used what everyone was using and it would have been limited to the nobles or priests.Don’t forget that the winners or occupiers wrote their own history and wiped out anyone else’s.
@@NS-mz8gqkeep dreaming poor alba
❤❤❤🇦🇱🤝 respect from an albanian in Montenegro
Whereabouts? My parents are from there also. Near Rumija mountain.
@@australiaprisonisland9156 Hoti i kujit near plav gusinje.
@@IllyricvmPhilosophy Ok. You must be in the US. Are you an EV13 carrier like us?
@@australiaprisonisland9156 no, I take dna test and got J2b-l283 haplogroup.
@@australiaprisonisland9156 on 23andme i got two (highly likely) sections, plav, Montenegro and then Peloponnese, Greece.
Danke!
WAW!! First dono from @2fast! Amazing bro.. thank you so much for your contribution! I really hope you enjoyed the video.
The origins of Albanians are very mysterious indeed, along with their language.
Great video!
Albanians are fantastic people respekt from London.
Danke!
Vetem vazhdo pershendetje nga Suhareka 👐🏽
@FisnikKrasniqi87 Faleminderit shumë për donacionin tuaj të mrekullueshëm!
As a 1st generation Albanian living in the UK, I’ve always had an interest in the history of my people. I just came across your channel and would like to wholeheartedly show my upmost appreciation and respect to you brother.
This is truly inspiring, educational & honourable. Shows the true face of the Albanian people & not the negativity portrayed here and all over.
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Tack!
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As an Englishman i have the upmost respect for the Albanian people, the true first Europeans or even civilisation with an ancient language. Not to mention that they are the descendants of Illyrians. In my view all Albanians should be treated like the Kings and Queens that they are.
Mos e tepro moj vlla😂
they are not illyrians learn history for once
@@acketech69No they are not Illyrians, but their descendants…at least a significant portion of them for a simple reason - Proper Illyrians (as Romans called them). lived in what is now Albania (with their capital being Shkodra), and closely related to Dardanians (modern Kosovo)….
Albanian language os made up of Proto-Albanian words (directly related to Proto-Indo-European) and some Pre-Indo-European words, while the vast majority of. Albanian vocabulary is made up of ancient Latin (at least some 60%) and ancient doric Greek. That in itself tells you that Albanians were there in the Balkans because where else could their language been so drastically latinaized and greecesized if not in the Balkans… and remeber, Illyrians were still around in the time of Romans and well after the fall of Roman empire….The only language the Illyrians of that time could speak could have been only the Latin…What the Illyrian soike before the Roman time is hard to say, but logically it could have been a dialect of Proto-Indio- European…or a combination of Pre and Proto-Indo-European….
@@acketech69 DNA says that they are,related to the Greeks and south Italians so logic should tell you that they are.Albanian language is unique which means they have always been there maybe longer than some others,but don’t worry money has been spent to look for archaeological sites and DNA studies will be done and there won’t be need to listen to foreign sources that are biased and continue with rhetoric.
@@NS-mz8gq bro albanian language is mixed of turkish, you are funny, but albania have 0 history, they have nothing with ilyrians
A fantastic video about albanian language. The truth can't be hiden anymore. Go Albanins, save the country & save the most beautiful ALBANIAN LANGUAGE.
Thank you so much for appreciating the video! 🙏
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle 😂😁😁😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😆
@@geogeo2299what’s funny
@@Gamesbozz That Albanian language is "most beautiful". That's about as funny as it gets.
All albanians are proud of how old and unique our language is 🇦🇱
and a suggestion for a vid : Albania during Balkan wars
😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Right but in theory only
@@Šajzewdym
@@geogeo2299what’s funny
Love from korca🇦🇱👑
Very interesting and well presented. Thank you!
Holger PEDERSEN :"" The Albanian lanGUAge is the only tool for enlightenment and moral progress "" or ÇELSI ( CHELSEA Symbol) = KEY
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your appreciation and your generous donation! 🫡
Spot on brother, great content Shqipe. Keep it up brother.
Shumë bukur, vetëm kujdes me ato harta pa Kosovën brënda!
#Dardani
Aty ku flitet për Geg dhe Toskë, ju mund të gjeni Dardaninë Ilire. ( Emri Kosove, nji emër i krijuar Serb) që në fakt emri i vërtetë i saj është Dardania Ilire, pra Shqipëria e pa coptar. Nuk kishte Serbi, kur kishte Dardani-Illiri dhe Pellazgi. Kjo video flet për afro 6000 vjet para Krishtit dhe besoj që Dardania është epiqendra e Shqiptarisë të sotme. Armiqt tanë Serb, e rrënuan Shqiptarizmin në Veri por Zoti i Math, na ndihmoi të ruajm gjuhën dhe etnogjenezn tonë ILIRE. Faleminderit.
Eshte shume e frikshme te heqesh kosove se gjithe veriu i shqipris ka zbritur nga kosova gjate konvertimit , pyetni mirditoret nga kan ardh te gjithe nga Kosova.
So proud to come from that blessed Land ❤
Good job on putting this together . Very educational
Bravo Shqipe. Beautiful video 🇦🇱
Our grandparents in Mat have told us that we are indigenous since the time of the great flood 12 thousand years ago, when the village was 400 meters higher, on the same level as the mountaintop today, and the entire area Mati was a flat plain 400 meters higher than today. This shows that we Albanians have been indigenous to our country since the time of the great flood of Noah's time, and we did not come from from elsewhere in the world. Our ancestors have made us proud with this true and very interesting story about our very distant and ancient roots. This story has been passed down from generation to generation. generation after generation, over centuries and millennia... We have also found steel tillage tools on top of the mountain 1800 meters high, from the time when the place was a plain at that height.. Tillage tools hidden, they are something special, because they are not rusty, they look like they are chromed black, and very different from today's artisanal tools for working the earth...
I have noticed that far too many hateful comment have accused this video for being propaganda and this have to stop. So from now on I will ban all account that use sama hateful comment from the channel! ✌️
You have not to worried "ChildrenOfTheEagle", GRAQIRET(I mean greec people) have more than 200years of manipulation about the historie. Albania & Albanians have been survived. Illyrian pennisula will be back very soon. Is our duty to not except anymore so called Balkan. Renamed ILLYRIAN pennisula bring back real historie of our land. God bless our land & beautiful Albanian language.
Ashtu eshte,respekte pa fund
@@ozymandiasultor9480Criticism is one thing, but being a hateful racist and claiming the video of propagating something that a German institution have researched about is blatently ignorant. If you have any problems with the truth then write your complain to Max Planck Institut.
@@ozymandiasultor9480 you are too smart man. Only my littel dog is at your level of historie knowledges. I can't argue with you. Just wish you having more dreams.
@@ozymandiasultor9480 I feel sorry for you little man, you got alot of hate in your heart and alot of propaganda in your head.
As I consider moving to Albania I am fascinated with the history and culture! This is truly amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
Wow, it's amazing how diverse and rich the Albanian language is! It has such a fascinating history and beautiful expressions. 🌟🇦🇱
A lot of experts lately are saying that the language is 7,000 years old , making it the oldest language in Europe!
I believe that.
Good job, keep it going 👍🏼
The Heggarty paper cited in this video is considered to be wrong by most linguists. This video is ethnonationalist propaganda based on fringe science. Also, it doesn't make any sense to say a language is "the oldest" or "thousands of years old", because every language in the world is basically equally old. Every language is the result of transmission from one generation to the next as "the same language", but within a few generations or a few centuries languages change into new languages depending on many factors. Whether it's 7000 years or 5000 or 4000 or whatever, that number doesn't represent how old Albanian is. It represents when an ancestor language of Albanian split from a common ancestor. Latin was spoken over 2000 years ago, but that doesn't make Spanish 2000 years old. And whenever the precursors to Albanian split from the rest of IE, that doesn't show when Albanian split from all the intervening languages, like stages of Illyrian or whatever. Identifying some ancestor of Albanian from 7000 years ago doesn't make it "older" than any other language in Europe or anywhere else in the world, because all the other IE languages following that split would also trace back to that same split 7000 years ago. In other words, German, English, Russian are also 7000 years old in the same sense. But please forget this random nonsense number "7000", because that is simply the claim of one recent scientific publication that is not accepted by other linguists. It is very likely to be wrong. To understand this better, let's say hypothetically that human language started 100,000 years ago and all existing languages trace back to one or more languages from that time. We really do NOT know when it started, so this is just hypothetical. That means that Albanian is 100,000 years old according to your thinking. But it also means that every other language in the world is 100,000 years old. Yes, Albanian is a great and unique language and culture, just like every other language and culture in the world, but you don't need pseudoscientific ethnonationalist propaganda to prove that. Yes, Albanian, Hellenic, Armenian and Tocharian are special because they are on branches of IE that separated before the major expansion of IE in the Corded Ware era. Any scientist will agree with that basic fact. You don't need idiotic pseudoscientific claims about "oldest" blah blah blah to be proud of your language and culture for any reason you choose to.
@@MikeInliters My brother you sound kinda jealous to me and it’s okay I understand.
Everyone been jealous with our history, national heroes and divine language.😊
I appreciate your perspective, but I believe it's important to explore and appreciate the historical roots of languages, including Albanian. While it may be debated, the claim of Albanian being over 7000 years old offers insight into its rich linguistic heritage.
Let's celebrate the diversity of languages and cultures without diminishing their significance. 🌍🇦🇱🎉💗
@EthnicAlbania2030 well spoken!
@@MikeInlitersyou belong to the darkness ! 😂
@@MikeInlitersI dont think I would undermine the video with an ultranationalist label! I dont see such tendency. While you are right about numbers, we know that as you mentioned Albanian split from the greek-armenian branch befote they did, making it and older spoken separate tongue btw the three!
Kosova-dardania is the heart of albania.
@@ozymandiasultor9480 you mean little Russia?
@@ozymandiasultor9480 ratio
Russo-asian 🫵🤫
Respekt from Sweden 🇸🇪🫶🏼
Tack !Hoppa du gillade videon.
Long life Arberia 🇦🇱❤
Albania is an autochthonous people that has been fighting for its freedom and independence for centuries against enemies and oppressors of all kinds: the Albanians: Through all the struggles and all the historical upheavals, this people has retained its originality; Neither the migration of peoples nor the battles with Serbs, Turks and other conquerors and oppressors were able to prevent the Albanians from maintaining their uniqueness pure and unadulterated in race and language, in customs and manners.
Historian - Hanslörg Frommer
Today only the Albanians, with their independent language, see themselves as descendants of the Illyrians.
Historian -Theodor Mommsen
was a German historian and is considered one of the most important antiquarians of the 19th century. The only Nobel Prize winner for literature. The brave ones from Eperius are the Albanians from antiquity, loyal, courageous traditional people whose flag has always been their eagle.
Karl Kaser - historian
Sees today's Albanians as the descendants of the remaining non-Omanized Illyrian population. To support his view, he cites results from Albanian archeology and linguistics
Johann Georg von Hahn
Josef ritter von xylander historian
These two represent the thesis of the autochthonous nature of today's Albanians, which is linked to the Pelasgian question.
The Albanians have a language completely different from that of the Latins, Greeks and Slavs, so they cannot communicate in any way with other peoples".
Historian - Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer
There is a people on the Illyrian Peninsula whose language, in its structure and core, bears not the slightest resemblance to either Greek, Turkish or the Slavic dialects spoken today in most of the South Danube countries.
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👍🌌🌞🇭🇺❤️🇦🇱!!!
@@janosapponyi4072 Johann Hunyadi & Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg
@@Besa-Bese Geraldina Apponyi Queen 🇦🇱!
(Arber) Is Of Norman Origin
(Arberit) Is Of Norman Origin
(Ngirterre) Is Of Norman Origin[Girter]
(Skarpar) Is Of Norman Origin .
(Kleu) is Of Norman Origin
(Sindak) Is Of Norman Origin (Sin dak).
(Kam) is of Norman Origin (Kriet) is Of Norman Origin.
(Radhju) is Of Norman Origin .
(Shum) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Kanoj) is Of Norman Origin.
(Alampu) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Buhet) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Here) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Shkome) Is Of Norman Origin [Skome] .
(Atentu) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Skogha) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Jarrejem) Is Of Norman Origin.
(Qanet) Is Of Norman Origin [Ganet] .
(Gjithe) Is Of Norman Origin
(Krijuesi) is Of Norman Origin
(Cikughat) Is Of Norman Origin [cikugrat]
Thank you for the video fully. Also, thanks for the end! ❤
Am from hunza valley, brushki is only isolated language but albanians understands ussss
Bravo, thanks for another amazing video 🙏🏻
Respect for your channel. Respect from Albanian land of eagle 🦅🦅🇦🇱🦅🦅
"It is virtually impossible to see through the various strata in the Albanian language to discover any particular ancient ethnic origin."
"As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D."
Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
Lamartine: "Albanians, this nation and this people can not be mocked ... This is the land of heroes of all time ... Homer found there Achilles, the Greeks the Alexander the Great, Turks found Skanderbeg, people these of the same race, the same blood" .
Maurico Druon, secretary of the French Academy: "Albanians belonging to those people older than History itself. Albanian grandparents participated in the war of Troy, led by Achilles (on one side) and Hector (the other side) ".
Nicolas Iorga: "The Albanian people together and the Basques one are the oldest in Europe."
Maximilian Lambertz: "The true History of the humanity will be written only when it will be written with the participation of Albanians".
Huacunthe Hecquard: "In no country in the world women are not more respected and does not exercise a powerful activity than Albanian women, some Albanian mothers ousted from home their children because left the war front. They had returned them to the battlefield".
Lord Byron: "Albanians with their costumes make a most wonderful scenery in the world ... Albanians are the most beautiful human race exists, courageous, stronger than their strongholds."
Henry Noel Brailsford: "... The 'primitive' Albanian, in fact is the superhuman," of which Nietzsche dreamed."
Giuseppe Katapano: "Atlantida which disappeared 12,000 years ago, was the land of the Illyrians (Pelasgians), who escaped the flood of Atlantis and began new civilizations on all continents, especially in Europe, Africa and Small Asia small".
Agostino Ribeco: "The millennial Albanians Rights, ethnographic and geographic range from old times in Illyria, Macedonia and Thessaly."
Branislav Nušić: "Albanians are indigenous, who during all invasions of peoples kept its type and character significantly. They faced attacks by Romans, dense Slavs raids, who invadet them all fields, plains, and rivers ".
H. Dusko Konstantinov: "Albanians are the oldest inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula and direct descendants of the Illyrians, who had built the most powerful state in the Balkans."
Edvin Jacques: "The Illyrians or Albanians, these stalwart warriors were Albanians, heirs of Achilles, Philip, Alexander the Great and the Piros of Epirus ...".
Edvin Pears: "Albanians are descendants of the oldest race of the Balkan Peninsula, namely the Aryan race, to draw this word from two Albanian roots of words: Gold and side, which i.e. people of pure gold."
Max Myle: "The names of of most familiar people derived from the old Albanian word 'Ar'. This also applies to many other countries of the world."
Fanulla Papazogllu: "Dardania is one of the ancient Balkan provinces where the indigenous population is the best preserved."
Jen Goss: "The origin of the Albanians to the time of Pelazgs and have pre-helen origin."
Gustav Meier: "Albanians are young Illyrians".
George Hahn: "Albanians are descendants of Illyrians, but the descendants of the Illyrians were Pelasgians ... Albanians are grandchildren of Pelasgians".
Haki Pasha: "If the Albanian history emerges, the Ottoman Empire will go to the river".
Harold Whitehal: "Egyptian hieroglyphics, created 4,000 years ago have Albanian significance".
Henri Braisford: "In Macedonia, Albanians are the only indigenous people."
Johan von Han: "The Albanian derives from Illyrian and the Illyrian from Pellasgian one".
Jovan Cvijiq: "South Slavs, after arrived in the Balkans, found there the Albanians, who under their pressure (Slavs) retreated southward and to most mountainous areass, where we face today."
Konstantin Paparigopulos: "Only the Albanians are considered descendants of the Illyrian race
Keep dreaming Albo 😂
@@southface6684😂
@@southface6684yes we are alboilirian,and what are you,and its true.
@@southface6684he literally just quoted writers? so Idk why the keep dreaming thing lol
They discover that erth is flat,like a plate,i recommend to stop using drugs,the best dealers of drugs around europe,check the video from 1991 , thousands of Albanian hunging in a ship like grapes to escaping in Italy,this is there heritage
Greetings from Dardania (Kosova) 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Šiptar🤪🤪
@@diktrejsi8214 at least i am not a Serv
@@ilirianbardhi7901 ohh , you mean like a Serb who is MVP of NBA league, or like Serb who is MVP of Euro league, or like a Serb who is NO1 tennis player in the world, or like Serbs who are Olympics, World and European champion in water polo, or like Serbs who are, men and women basketball Olympic, World and European champions, or like a Serbs, men and women volleyball Olympic, World and European champions, or like Serb Milorad Chavich swimming champion, or like Serb football U19 team who is champion of Europe 2013 , or like Serb football team U21 who are World champions 2015, or like Serbian women who won contest Eurovision, or like Serbian 3x3 basketball team who is 6 time world champions, or Serbs who won handball silver medal, or like world famous scientists Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milankovich and Mihajlo Pupin, yes it's hard to be a Serbs, it's easier to be Albanian 🐏🐑🐐 fcccker
great video ! Keep them coming vlla
Love for Albania and all Albanians 🇳🇱❤️🇦🇱 History as it is now needs to be revised and corrected. I've been redding that Alexander the Great is Albanian legacy as Albanians were partially called Macedonian up untill the late Medival times; next to Arberia, Dardania en Epiria. This is incredible. These facts need to be displayed
Monedha e SHQIPERISE quhet LEK per nder te ALEKSANDRIT qe shqipetaret shkurt e quanin LEKA I madh.
Proud to be Albanian.
Proud to be Albanian 🇦🇱🇽🇰🧬🦅
Thank you for your work!
It would br cool when u can make a subtitles in albanian for people like my parents who don't understand English
I.have prepared subtitles in Albania, just press settings and choose language. 😉
Po vella ka titra shqip.. thjesht shtype cilësinë dhe zgjidh nga 9 gjuhët qe i kam përgatitur.
"So while linguists may debate about the ties between Albanian and older languages of the Balkans, and while most Albanians may take the genealogical connection to Illyrian as incontrovertible, the fact remains that there is simply insufficient evidence to connect Illyrian, Thracian, or Dacian with any language, including Albanian"
Curtis, Matthew Cowan (30 November 2011). Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence. p. 18
I ❤ my albanian language.
Hi, i will use this for a school project If it is okey ? Nice work 👍
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Keep on going shqipe👍🏼🇦🇱
WOW Amazing‼️ The veil is slowly lifting.
The genetic make-up of Albanians are indeed native to the Balkans for at least 6,000 years!
Great and informative video 🔥
The ludicrous chart at 12'40' contrasting the Greek words with the Albanian diction and the Homeric one is hilariously misleading through either ignorance or wishful cherry-picking. The Greek word “nero”, for instance, actually stems from the ancietnt Greek adjective “νεαρόν» (nearon) meaning fresh, as in νεαρόν ύδωρ ( nearon hydor) = fresh water. Νεμέας (Nemeas) does not mean "curse" in Homeric Greek, but it refers to the area of Nemea in the Peloponesse, steming from the ancient and modern Greek root νέμειν=nemein, which means to distribute, to seperate, to share out. It is still used in Greek in many derivatives like διανέμω, οικονομία (the fair distribution/order of the home), Νεμεσις, απονέμω, etc... Γορός does not mean knee, but is an adjective meaning "bent". The Homeric woed for knee is "γόνυ", modern greek γόνατον, with the particle γο- refering to anything that bends or makes a sharp turn as in γωνία (gonia) = corner, angle.
Either maliciously or ignorantly you pose the greek word thymos (anger) against the Ηomeric word "Mηνίω", without mentioning the modern/ancient word μένος/menos, which also means "anger"and the derivative of "μηνύω", used to this day by Greeks to mean to "charge someone with a crime". Even the accents are wrong in your text.
Other words in the chart are also falsely represented to accommodate the wishful thinking of their authors. "Vrotos", for instance, is not a verb, but an adjective meaning "mortal, perishable, like in modern Greek "trotos" τρωτός. The listed word "γριά" is the modern Greek rendering of Homeric "γραία" and it does not mean "married woman" but "old woman". "Gynaika" means "woman" from the declention of the ancient Greek "gynee" γυνή.. In Homeric Greek the word would have been "γυνή γαμήτις", or simply "γυνή". "Βοή" is wrongly rendered as "thrino" (to mourn), whereas to this day, as in Homeric times, it meant "any loud cry or continual noise sound" as in modern Greek "βουητό" (prolonged noise) and βους = cow (due to its moaning sound), and it has survived in the compound of modern Greek as "βοήθεια" = to cry out to the divine (θείον) for assistance. You see, the derivatives of these Homeric roots function only in Greek, not in Albanian, the latter probably having borrowed and mispronounced many Greek words, as less developed neighbors often do...
At the end of the day, it does not matter which language is the “oldest”, but which language has had the greatest impact on the world through its compilation of ideas and etymology.
And this language is incontestably found in the Hellenic branch, whose script is the oldest of all European languages..
Besides, speaking of "script"..., there are no written records of Albanian before the 13th century of our common era.
Any similarities between Homeric Greek and Albanian may very well be attributed to the cultural-linguistic influence of the more advanced Greeks on their more primitive northern neighbours, or even a common Indo-European root, the latter of which theory is just that: theoretical...
Tell your quasi-paralinguists to stop feeding their delusions with ill-founded nationalistic wishful thinking, claiming that Achilles is a Pelasgian who spoke Albanian as the ahistorical Slavs to the north of Macedonia claim Alexander to be theirs.
I just love it when articulated people like you use fancy word to disclaime that Albanian language doesn't have a written record before the 13th century, yet fancy studies like the one mentioned in the video - not to mentioned the Harvard language study, smashes meager attempt like your's. Given you consider Albanien language as being primitiv and Greek language as more advanced, it's pretty safe to conclude that you're not that fond of Albanian history and that's ok. I don't mind!
As for the Homeric words I provided - and 2,000 other words I haven't - is pretty remarkable that 2,700-ish years later theses words are still used by Albanians.
Aaha yeah.. Achilles. Did you know that Greeks, not sure if Homer did, used to call him Aspetos? In Albanien Gheg 'A i shpejt' or 'I shpejt o' means - He is fast. In the Iliad he's mentioned numerous times as being fast and unkillable, hence the nickname 'the fast one' or 'swift-footed''. The same goes for the word Achilles.. In Albanien Gheg, 'Ach i let o' , means 'He is so light'. Just for the fun of it, what does Aspetos mean in Greek?
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for exposing your ignorance and your "selective" etymology of Greek words. Unfortunately for you, apart from us Greeks, there are reputed, world-renowned linguists who have compiled dictionaries of ancient and modern Greek. Here is the dictionary entrance for "aspetos" in Liddel & Scott dictionary and in every ancient Greek dictionary throughout the world that reveals your ignorance: ἄσπετος: -ον (εἰπεῖν), from the negational Greek particle "α-" and ειπείν (to say/tell), meaning ανείπωτος (that which cannot be expressed in words, unspeakable), ανέκφραστος (undescribable), απερίγραπτα μεγάλος (indescribably great), σε Όμηρ.· ουδ. ως επίρρ., ἀνείπωτα, σε Ομήρ. Ιλ. It is a derivative of the irregular greek verb "λέγω" (to say), and is used to this very day in Greek in forms like "είπα" (I said), "τι είπες;" (what did you say?).
In short, the word "aspetos" (unspeakable) has nothing to do with one who runs fast, which is "ωκύπους" in the Iliad, from ωκύς=fast and πους/πόδι=foot, i.e. "fast-footed Achilles".
Mr "Children of the Eagle", I happen to be a linguist who has studied both in Grece and abroad, and can provide you with any information regarding the Greek language and the non-existence of any Albanian substantial script before the 13th or even the 15th century.
I can also assure you that without Greek words in your language, you would not be able to communicate in the modern world. The very word "history", that you so like to use, is a derivative of the Greek irregular verb "οίδα", which means "to know": αρχ. ἱστορία < ἵστωρ < εἰδέναι του οἶδα "γνωρίζω". And yes, I am very fond of history. That is why I can reveal your ignorance.
You may collect as many cudos as you wish from your equally ignorant followers, but there will always be facts and educated people to descredit all your nonsense.
You have been exposed!
(PS. Please provide us with any literature or writing in Albanian prior to the 15th century...)
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle My friend, as a Greek myself with family from Asia Minor, Athens and Cyprus, I support the Albanian people and all efforts to preserve and discover your history as I know how important it is. My Cypriot family lost their homes from the Turkish invasion and were made refugees, their graves and towns desecrated and "removed" from history, so I can empathise with the Albanian people.
However, what I will say is please do not try to raise one thing up by trying to diminish another thing, as you are hinting at with the age and "importance" of the Albanian language compared to Greek. There are some mistakes in your video about certain words as well as logical fallacies regarding the omission of certain ancient Greek words in modern Greek.
There is much to be proud about that does not require comparison or competition using other languages and cultures to measure the greatness of your own.
Please keep this in mind with all due respect. 🇦🇱🇨🇾🇬🇷🇦🇲
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle
My friend
It's ridiculous to etymologise 100 Greek words of Homer but not the total of 8-9 thousands Greek words that Homer used.
It is known that not only Albanian and Slavs but all the world adopted thousands of Greek words.
I'm a historian ikr 👍
@hrvatskiapoksiomen9 Given that the complete Homeric lexical dictionary, which consisted of around 8844 word in total, whereas roughly 7000 of these word were actively used, I'm baffled where you get 20-30 thousands of Homeric words from?
Another amazing video, keep up the good work.
BIG ALBOS BROTHERS 🇦🇱❤️🇽🇰❤️
Respect for the documentary.
in the Illyrian peninsula, not only people, but also stones and trees spoke Albanian.👍🇦🇱🇽🇰
Mos e thoni me kete illyrian peninsula se late nam. Ne ballkan kane jetuar iliret, traket, dakianwt, helenet dhe popuj te there me te vegjel
Good video my shqipe
Bravo 🤝👏
Proud to be albanian
Proud to speak the oldest language in the world 🇦🇱🇽🇰
Good video
As a historian i have to tell you that you do the same mistake that some slavs (Serbians and Vardarskans) do.
You try to etymologise Greek words that Albanians, Slavs and rest of the world adopted from Greeks and Homer used.
And i ask them the same question:
"Why you etymologise only 1 or 2 hundreds Greek words that Homer used and albanians adopted and not the total of 8-9 thousands Greek words that Homer used"?
But if Slavs and Albanians took these words from Homer why is it that today only Albanians use words such as anger, water, earth, star, mountain, etc. from 13:02 but somehow Southern Slavs and Modern Greeks do not use these words. This would mean there is continuity from Homer to Albanian, but not from Homer to Modern Greek or Southern Slavic.
@@universalconquest4447That list at 13:02 is very dubious: Ήλιος has always meant sun, and not star, for example!
In greek you can not translate anything so that means Albanian is closer to Homer language
@@Henrik_channel Complete nonsense. Good luck trying to understand Ilias and Odyssée if You know only Albanian.
@@Henrik_channel
Let's be specific.
For example etymologise this original Homer's text , word by word:
Homer's Iliad,
Rhapsody M,
Line 243:
"Είς οιωνός άριστος, αμύνεσθαι περί πάτρης"
(Hector's saying:
Eis oionos aristos amynesthai peri patris= the best sign is to fight for your country)
When i give specific original quotes to my slav compatriots who claim also Homer they sh@t up
If you cant etymologise all Homer's phrases but you Cherrypick selectively a couple of words, is because you adopted thousands Greek words like every people did
Very good video! Shame on the albanian speaking parents not teaching it their children
Ive been thinking the same thing but its a sweeter fruit when you figure it out on your own.
Why are you here propagating such a message in a language other than Albanian? Either way I agree 👍
@@jetonbalidemaj
Hey bro.. je i plaves e gucise? I’m from grude.
Respect from Detroit Michigan
So that the non-albanian speakers can understand @@australiaprisonisland9156
@@Helmuesi911 yeah i was born in plav, how did you figure that?
I never thought i would see such an impressive semi documentary. It was well produced and it was objective and fact based, not from the Albanian academy (which have sold their souls to those who don't want the these documentaries to come out) but from foreign studies which makes even more credible.
Respect from Persia
As an amateur historian I am confused. I don’t say this to be rude or inconsiderate, but from an earnest place of curiosity. Is modern Albanian the language of the Illyrians? The Albans were an asiatic people not related to the Illyrians, who moved in during the Middle Ages. Did they adopt Illyrian, or did the Illyrians adopt the language of the Albans?
Either way, if the Albans replaced Illyrian with the oldest Indo European language or the other way around it’s still a fascinating reality.
Seems like you haven’t done your homework or research properly 😂
There is no evidence of ancient albaniian language.
Nada. Zero.
Not even one ancient albanian coin.
Zero evidence of ancient albanian scripts.
Where is this ancient albanian language hidden?
Tell us one ancient albanian scholar.
Who and what did he write?
@@alexandroscomingaftermonke596 that is not the question. There were a group of people called the Albans and they were from the eastern steps of what is now Russia. They had a language and it was probably similar to Slavic/Bulgarian. Then there were the Illyrians who had a distinct language. Their language was probably most closely related to Greek and/or Thracian or some form of proto Greek from Asia Minor.
So then what is modern Albanian and what is its closest relation to its historic roots?
@@the_watcher_abc
Illyrians were not certain ethnicity.
There is no evidence of Illyrian language and there is no Illyrian DNA.
Illyria was just an area with tribes.
The dominant one after 7th century BC were the Greeks.
That's why in today Albania there are ONLY evidence of ancient Greek scripts. 70.000 ancient Greek scripts (inscriptions, coins, steeles, etc ) found so far in albania
Most of the ancient monuments and cities are Greek.
Albanians are desperate to disappear them 😂 lmao
@@the_watcher_abc what kind of historians are you ? A serbian one, because there is not one doccument saying that albans moved to europe during the middle ages, your a historian as well as someone who says he is a scientific but believing the earth is flat
Look up genetic studies you ignorant we know you are a greek or a serb
I have been rooting for the Fertile Crescent mainly because of archeology, DNA and folklore. For example we know based on genetics and linguistic studies Albanian is an early language, based on archeology we also know people have lived in that region for millennia so that leaves the folklore to fill in the gaps. Well according to the ancient epic songs carried over from generation to generation as oral history especially amongst the highlanders we know Albanians were told by their ancestors that they came to those lands via the Black Sea before Black Sea existed. Based on geology we know that Black Sea was created about 8000 years ago and that's just too early for Yamnaya.
Going in to this project in notised how much politicalized this topic really is. Right of the bat the internet is filled with Proto-Indo-European language and Yamnaya theory, which by the way considers the Albanian language as non-existent and claiming that the Albanian language settled in the Balkans in the 12th century AD. It's this particular camp that pushes their political agenda to undermin and demonize the Albanian heritage.
Wich song ore folk says that?
Speaking of folklore. I was watching a documentary about Dibra region and the guide who was very knowledgeable about the region's history was saying-'sometimes history is much better preserved through folklore as it goes from one generation to another, than the writings, which can be lost due to many reasons' or even manipulated as we've seen sometimes. And, Albanians are known to sing songs, either in their northern ballads or southern polyphony about every event that they've had, which is still being practiced to this day.
Interesting to know that when Alexander The Great went to Asia, the people there told him that he just came back where his ancestors were already….
@sokoli3253 It is actually quite interesting why Alexander chose to conquer Asia and not Europe. Some historians say that the land he conquered once belonged to ancient Albanians. If so then it's no surprising why.
"The language of the Albanians is unformed and adulterated. In many areas Italian elements have been incorporated into the language, in others Greek and in others Slavonic. Therefore Albanians who live fifty or sixty miles apart do not understand each other. In addition, there are racial differences between the Gegs who live in the wild north and the Tosks in the less rugged south. One would say that they belong to different ethnicities. And indeed this is the case. It would be easy to prove that the Albanians are not one people but half a dozen peoples."
Sir John Foster Fraser, "Pictures from the Balkans", CHAPTER XXIV. THE ALBANIANS, p. 257-258)
So where and who do you believe these distinct Albanian groups mentioned in this paragraph are and originate from? Do you think they have lived there centuries before Christ?
@@universalconquest4447 "From place names, we know that Slavic settlements were also widespread throughout Albania, and it can be assumed that the Slavs came to form the majority population in the region for several centuries."
"The early urban settlements founded along the coast were initially populated by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and were later inhabited by Venetians, Byzantine Greeks, southern Slavs, Italian traders, and even Jews. It was only in the Ottoman period that Albania really became Albanian in an ethnic sense, and it was first in the twentieth century that the Albanians created an independent state of their own. Thus, for many centuries, the history of Albania had little or nothing to do with the Albanian people. They were but one stone in a great mosaic. In this sense, the history of Albania comprises much more than the history of the Albanians."
"As has been noted above, the first millennium of Albanian history had little to do with the Albanian peoples themselves. As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D."
Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
@@vangelisskia214 1) If Albanians were just a mixture of Greeks and Romans then their language would be a mixture of Greek and Latin but instead they have an authentic language with root words that differ from Greek and Latin.
2) Albanians were mentioned as a group in the 11th century AD, which is fairly early considering that most modern European nationalities developed centuries later.
3) All ethnic groups are melting pots of different people and tribes.
@@universalconquest4447 The Albanian language has a huge amount of Latin and Greek derived vocabulary. This is a fact. There is indeed a grammatic basis from another language, but there is no expert linguist that can claim with certainty whether that basis is from Ilyrian, Thracian, Dacian or from another distinct ancient language alltogether. So, there is no definitive proof that Albanian derives from ancient Illyrian.
@@universalconquest4447 You speak of Albanians during the 11th century as a group and then compare this with modern nationalities?! Albanians were only an ethnic group and never a nation until only a 100 years back. Btw the Greek, Armenian and Persian ethnic groups (among others) preexisted the Albanian for some... 1500 years...
The meaning of the words inside the words...
Faleminderit...i falem nderit
Dashuroj...dashni uroj
Lumturoj...lum të roj jetoj...lum si ty...të lumtë...😊😊
Allahu i shperblefte prof. Rasel Gray, Paul Hagertly nga instituri Max Plank Gjermani dhe Elena Kocaqi per kete pune te vleftshme per origjinen e gjuhes Shqipe!! Respekt!
Zoti thuhet Shqip e jo allahi arba! Fol Shqip e mos e prish gjuhen shqipe me fjal arabe!
@@blackcat.19 Reagim i lodhte !
@@lulzimthaci6356 Për ty ësht! Në qoft se je arba ik në arabi. Shqiptaret e kan gjuhen e vet hynore dhe nuk ju duhet gjuha arabit! Po ti je i pa ditur dhe shkon si miza mbas mutit.
Proud Albanian from Turkey
Thank you for sharing this information to the world.
"It has been reported that at the end of the 20th century some Christian Albanians still used the term "TURK" to refer to Muslim Albanians."
Matvey Lomonosov, "On Albanian Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire", Porta Balkanica, vol. 5, 2013, p.12
@@highevan a slav commenting on us, a rumour, a gossip
@@highevan todays serb call bosnian turks despite bosnian having even less turkic ancestors than serbs
Ahahhaaa the Serb origin is Turkish origin ahaha sirbistan
Flood wiped out prior civilization and from 2,348 BC and we had a reset. EV13 links to tribe of Japeth entering Southwest Europe (aka balkan) everything else is fantasies. Civilization starts with Sumer/Babylon where there is an explosion of different languages and writing system since. Albanians, with no records of having a writing system kept language closer to mother tounge hence Albanian is older then Greek or Armenian. This is the reason why many suggest adn think Albanian is the first language. There is none live older than that.
Cool!
Norbert JOKL :"" The Albanian lanGUAge serves as a fiber that keeps the trunk alive and connetct this branches with roots. As you descent along this fiber to the wonders of history, strands can be affectedt. The Albanian language is a tool through which the seeker can illuminate the dawn of Albanian people's beginnings and immerse themselves in time that goes beyong the historical evidence "". NEPHILIM / NE FILLIM = THE BEGINNINGS
"Scholars agree that Illyrian was Indo-European, but it is unclear whether we are dealing with one or several different Indo-European idioms. We also LACK DEFINITIVE PROOF that Illyrian, in any of its possible forms, is the ancestor of modern Albanian, as is widely assumed today."
"Much has been written and speculated about the origins of the Albanian people. From their language, we know that they are Indo-Europeans, and they seem to be native to the southern Balkans. However, whether or not they stem directly from the ancient Illyrians, as is widely assumed by the modern Albanians, or from the Dacians or Thracians or some other ancient Balkan people or peoples, IS VERY MUCH OPEN TO QUESTION."
"However, we KNOW TOO LITTLE about the Illyrian language TO PROVE A CONNECTION linguistically, and THIS IS A CRUCIAL DEFICIT."
Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
I'm pretty sure Robert Elsie would have loved the Max Planck institut study.
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle Yea, whatever pal...
@@ChildrenOfTheEagleThe recent study by the Max Planck Institute presents a *hypothesis* rather than definitive proof regarding the origins and evolution of Indo-European languages, including Albanian. And it has yet to be accepted into mainstream linguistics by trained linguists.
You act like you have some kind of ground breaking evidence, but in reality it's still very much obscure and the sad reality is that we'll never know for sure.
@@ChildrenOfTheEagleI hope that doesn't hurt your fragile ego. Since Albania is a small, poor and insignificant country that barely gets any attention on the global scale, it is obvious that many Albanians feel the need to cope.
Their coping mechanism consists of referring to the past in order to make themselves look better. Yet the country actually has absolutely nothing to offer.
@@Odoxon7522 The Max Planck Institute's study is groundbreaking, and many universities are now taking it into account. The fact that it was published in Science - a journal known for its rigorous standards - should speak for itself. But trying to dismiss it as just a hypothesis and use it against me seems a bit childish, so no, it really doesn't hurt my feelings. I've actually followed up the study since it was pulished, and the more I read about it, the more I find that the strongest opposition comes from two main group of people: Serbs and Greeks. Now considering that both Serbia and Greece have historically divided Albanian lands between them, it really doesn't come as a surprise that you also oppose the study. Since you seem skeptical of the study, I suggest you write a complaint to the Max Planck Institute and the 80+ linguists involved, and explain why you think their results are not accepted by mainstream linguists.
Very proud that the facts are coming up. Most of our history was destroyed and burnt down, to erase the truth. History should not be destroyed, instead, it should be protected.
It's a fact that our language is older than the Greek, but this should not hurt anybody's feelings. It is what it is. Past is past, present is present.
Thank you Sir, for your precise work, as always!
Peace!
I am Albanian and I don’t aggre , we don’t have any envident that our language is older than greek, Greeks are the oldest in Balkans
E verteta del dikur…
Me mire vone se kurre…
Nuk ka asgje per tu mburrur Ose per Te ardhur turp nga asnje anë.
Historine e shkruajne fitimtaret dhe zhdukin çdo prove te historise te kombit.
Mos harro qe me shume mund u morë pavaresia dhe shume here u mundua te te rimeren territore nga fqinjet.
Çdo zbulim arkeologjik u vodh u quajt I zbuluar diku tjeter etj.
Vazhdo dhe beso cfare te duash.Keshilla ime eshte dysho gjithshka sepse çdo gje qe na kane mesuar deri sot eshte e mbushur plote me genjeshtra.Kjo vlen per gjithe boten jo vetem per Shqiperine.
Tu-ngjat-jeta.
@dom8929 There has been a study lately, which uses carbon methods to trace back and find out for how long has been a certain language spoken.
www.google.com/search?q=the+latest+study+in+sience.org+determines+how+old+are+languages&client=ms-android-samsung-gn-rev1&sca_esv=570352775&sxsrf=AM9HkKkIi9MFAW9htHzwO80iDjL7w0S2DA%3A1696360195631&ei=A2ccZe6KJrjZ7_UPoJWPkAE&oq=the+latest+study+in+sience.org+determines+how+old+are+languages&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIj90aGUgbGF0ZXN0IHN0dWR5IGluIHNpZW5jZS5vcmcgZGV0ZXJtaW5lcyBob3cgb2xkIGFyZSBsYW5ndWFnZXNIujlQpxtY7DZwAXgBkAEAmAHiAqAByhSqAQcwLjkuNC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBwgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICBxAjGLACGCfCAgUQABiiBMICBBAhGAriAwQYACBBiAYBkAYI&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#imgrc=EI6mqdluRdArmM&imgdii=wjEfGA8a_vQtxM
I am not claiming that the Albanian language is the oldest language 😁, I am just saying that it is one of the oldest, and people need to know this fact.
Also, in the Lin village of Pogradec, it has been found a Palafite, which is at least 2000 years older than what was the oldest known Palafite in the world, located in Switzerland 🇨🇭. The research team who made the study was Swiss crew from a well-known university. This Palafite in Albania dates back 6000 years before Christ.
@@dom8929 No,they arive from north Black Sea.
Te lumte SHQIPE. Zoti te Bekofte
Flm🙏
Very nice video !
Thank glory ILLYRIA 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
I'M PROUD OF SPEAKING THE OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD!
PROUD TO BE ALBANIAN!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Baron Nopcsa Ferenc was aspirant for the thron of Albania, he was from Hungary. Norbert Jokl was from Vienna, a great albanologist. Very important parallels.
It would be interesting to catalogise the incoming words in different times from different languages. The industry-words such Stecker, Thermocentrale, and the words of the culture, and the different segments of the life. Best greetings from Vienna for these very informative compound.
genetically the EEF/Anatolian farmer folk are not the same as the peoples of the open steppe most associated with Indo-European, such as Yamnaya, Cimmerian, Scythian etc. The main haplogoup of these peoples seems to be R1b, of a R type haplogroup Y chromosome, where as the majority of EEF is G2a, such as we found in Otzi the Iceman. The early farmer folk I think likely spoke the pre-Indo-European language such as the Pelasgian, Etruscan and Rhaetian peoples, the later two likely being remnants of the early Po River culture of the Terramare etc. One thing we find in places is that the EEF folk, when the Steppe migrations brought these peoples together, the farmers moved up into the mountain areas away from the herdsman steppe peoples, so it well could be the Pelasgian are a remnant group of such peoples having moved up into the mountains of what is today Albania, is interesting to think on.
From what I have been reading too; the Albanian language is closest with the Messapic language which are both related to the Illyrian language, and from this video it seems Proto-Illyrian would have developed before Proto-Greek, and Proto-Thracian which makes sense since the Albanian language splits off 500 years before Greek did from Indo-European.
We ilirians 🇦🇱 🦅 🇦🇱 🦅per sempre ❤
Hahahahaha
Very interesting.
It makes sense
Awesome True Story Histori e Vertet🤔La Storia Vera🇦🇱
@ChildrenOfTheEagle
My friend, Let's be specific.
For example etymologise this original Homer's text word by word:
Homer's Iliad,
Rhapsody M,
Line 243:
"Είς οιωνός άριστος, αμύνεσθαι περί πάτρης"
(Hector's saying:
Eis oionos aristos amynesthai peri patris= the best sign is to fight for your country)
When i give specific original quotes to my slav compatriots who claim also Homer they sh@t up
If you cant etymologise all Homer's phrases but you Cherrypick selectively a couple of words, is because you adopted thousands Greek words like every people did
first you must show is this the original writing of homer or a restaurated version where words are changed to fit the meaning
second i can give a meaning in albanian for that verse
esh iona hare te munohemi per at rri, eshte hare e jona te mundohemi per vendin ku rri ati, is our joy to suffer for the place where stay our father/s
@@Baracuda123-x1t
Only albanians do this sh1t.
Take the Greek words , twist them and f@ck them upside down and .... Voila .... albanian translation.
Lets take the first 3 words:
eis oionos aristos = the best sign ..
You turned into esh .... with completely different meaning
Plus albanians don't have alphabet. They use the latin one
This is mythilogia,you , show something script in ancient albania from that time, you have nothing
You are right
They don't even have an alphabet. They use the latin one
@@issavisisland9870and doesn’t most of Europe ?
So historical findings and professional linguists are myths ? lol
@@Gamesbozz
We are not talking about Europe.
We are talking about albanians with ZERO evidence of ancient albanian language.
With ZERO ancient albanian scholars
Obviously homer spoke and wrote ancient albanian language=translatable to nowadays albanian language.so your ancient "greek" scholars were albanians😉ps.you wouldnt have even an "own" an alphabet if you wouldnt have stolen it from the minoans,like you did with several other things in the balkans,inkluding your own"identity"😂
Te gjith jan krenar per Shqiptaret.Sot e verteta ka dal ne shesh , nje dit e verteta do jet vertet ne duart tona...Te Dua Shqiperi 🇦🇱🇽🇰🇲🇰
Well,
There is no evidence of ancient albanian language whatsoever.
Albanians don't even have an alphabet. They use the latin one
We don't know any ancient albanian scholars so we dont know anything about language and scripts
I'd like to see ancient albanian scripts, but unfortunately Zero
Sure no ancient as even the Illyrians didn’t, write in their native language either
@@Gamesbozz
Proof?
Evidence?
What did he write and who ?
Tell us one ancient Albanian scholar.
Just one
@@issavisisland9870Black Athena Ancient Greece Fabrication
Black Athena is a book written by Martin Bernal, first published in 1987, which challenges the traditional view of ancient Greece as a purely European culture. The book argues that ancient Greek civilization was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic cultures, particularly ancient Egypt and the Phoenicians.
Key Claims:
The ancient Greeks knew that their civilization was derived from the East and from Egypt in particular.
The “Aryan model” of Greek civilization, which posits that Greek culture was the result of the conquest of a native population by Indo-European speakers from the North, is a fabrication.
The Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the 18th century, largely for racist reasons.
Arguments:
Bernal argues that the ancient Greeks themselves acknowledged the influence of Egyptian and Phoenician cultures on their own civilization.
He points to the presence of Egyptian and Phoenician loanwords in the Greek language, as well as the similarity between Greek and Egyptian mythology and art.
Bernal also argues that the idea of a “Greek miracle” - the notion that Greek civilization arose suddenly and spontaneously in the 8th century BCE - is a myth with no historical basis.
The Greek language itself was not written in 700 B.C. but much more later as there were no Greek people during the time of Aleksandër the great who was Albanian.
Hey hey Nothing about Romanians Moldavians ? 😂 many of the words from the table are similiar in romanian 😂 also our languages are similar 😊😊😊 same ascensors 😊 love from Chisinau Moldova to Albania ❤
Those Greek translations are missleading to match the videos narrative. They use synonims and don't translate as they should have.
12:41 as a speaker of the Greek language, I want to point out that this is misinforming and I'll explain why. Starting off, it says that "Star" is Asteri in Greek, Yll in Albanian and Ήλιε/Ilie in ancient Greek. In ancient Greek, Ήλιε (or Ήλιος in the nominative case) means sun, not star. Star would be "Αστήρ/Aster". Another example, it says that "Κρατα/Krata" means "Arm", but Κρατα/Krata actually means strength (hence Kratos etc), the ancient word for arm is "βραχίων/brachion", from which the word "bratso" in the Greek translation is derived (Greeks borrowed "bratso" from the Italian "braccio", which comes from "βραχίων/brachion". Not even going to mention "Stab and Knife" which does translate to "Stabbing *with* knife", but the words used ("Machairoma", "machairi") come from another word root (from "μάχαιρα/machaira" which roughly means "long sword"), and not from the Homeric word that is mentioned. Same for the word "water", "nero" in the Greek translation comes from another word root (from "νήρον/neron" which means "fresh") and it started to come into use in later centuries, the proper word for water that was also used in ancient Greece is "ύδωρ/ydor". Also, the word "βροτος/Vrotos" does not translate to "Strike/kill". βροτος/Vrotos means mortal, and the modern Greek word for that is not "Skotono" (which isn't even a noun, it's a verb) as depicted in the video but "θνητός/thnitos". "Skotono" means "kill" and it is not even derived from the same word root as βροτος/Vrotos, it is derived from "Skotos" which in ancient Greek meant "Darkness". Finally, "Kefali" in Greek (Head) is also derived from another root, from "κεφαλή/kephale". In ancient Greek, the word for head was "κάρα/kara". There are so many mistakes it'd take forever to point them out.
Let me clarify something, I like Albania! And I've been curious about Albanians' roots because the general scientific consensus is that Albanians' origins are not known (some people say they come from Illyrians, others say they are Slavs, others say they are Pelasgians and so forth), I have wanted to know since forever. I think Greece and Albania should be friends and I hold no hate against you. This comment is not meant to hate Albania or Albanians or the Albanian language guys, I just think this part of the video is incredibly misleading if not deliberate misinformation (12:41). Greetings from Greece :) ❤
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What remains unclear in this lovely video is the connection between the Ev13 haplogroup (which os the most dominant haplogroup among Albanians), on one hand, and the Indo-Europeans , on the other.
We can see in the video that the Ev13 migration is not the same as the Info-European migration to the Balkans.
So which one got to the Balkans first, Ev13 or the Indo European..
Also, what happened to the oroginal language of the Ev13 migrants to the Balkans?
A legitimate question for once. While the Max Planck study points out that the Albanian language originally began south of the Caucasus sometime 8,100 years ago, the study does not rule out that the language may have migrated there at an earlier stage. If so, the movement of the genetic makeup of E-V13 shown at 08:05 could either mean that the Albanian language was spoken even earlier than the study suggests, or that the language took shape south of the Caucasus around 8,000 years ago.
As for the "original language" of E-V13, it is very challenging to assigning the first language to the haplogroup. Either way, quite a remarkable discovery to say the least.
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle
Thanx for the feed guys. You are doing a great job with these series. I am saying this as a marketer. The way an info is presented makes all the difference. Finally we have a nice professional presentation on Albanian culture Keep up the good work and get us some more presentations of this kind on other aspects of Albanian culture , especially the Kosovo Albanians who in my opinion preserved some of the original authentic ethnic Albanian traditions much more than the Albanians from Albania. It is ironic that the very word Albanian among non-Albanians immediately implies just the country of Albania and totally excludes Kosovo (Dardania), the heartland and the core of authentic Albanian traditions.
@Besajone1 Thank you so much for your appreciation. The passion i have for our peoples history, and the gratitude I get for the video's, have motivated me to make more and will continue to make them as long I'm able to, be that from all historical territories where Albanians have lived. As for Kosova.. the trilogy I'm currently working on will cover Adem and Hamza Jasharis battles from 1991-1998. A project that is personal and close at hart!
@@ChildrenOfTheEagle
I am an Apbanian born and growing up among south slavs…Most were nice and respected Albanians but those stereotypes and discriminatory slur that I had to come across among some south slavs every now and then were really ugly and demotivating….but given that these anti-albanian discriminatory slur were direted on an Albanian, they only made me stronger throughout my childhood….I have a strong bind to Dardania. (my Mothers homeland) because I can fully understand the decades long discrimination… at least people of Dardania were a majority and they could lean on each other….On the other hand, we, Albanians that grew up among south slavs had this heavy burden of putting up with ugliest possible anyi-albanian slur every now and then….Most ironically, Albanians that grew up and still live in south slavic countries are absolutely forgotten and ignored by both Kosovo and Albania,s government and people…bcs. Albanians from south slavic countries are not as rich as those from Germany, Switzerland, USA. and other western countries…
As politically incorrect that may sound, this is a bare truth… bit this too did not nor will kill our motivation to continue to guard and keep our identity and dignity.
"It is virtually impossible to see through the various strata in the Albanian language to discover any particular ancient ethnic origin."
"As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D."
Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.
@@highevan why dont you quote all his works because ive read him and he says that we are from here day one