====== Albanian language origins ======

The origin of the modern-day Albanian language is unknown.

>[...] its still-unknown origin has long been a matter of dispute among linguists and historians. Albanian is considered to be the descendant of one of the //Paleo-Balkan// languages of antiquity. For more historical and geographical reasons than specifically linguistic ones, there are various modern historians and linguists who believe that the Albanian language may have descended from a southern //Illyrian// dialect<sup> </sup>spoken in much the same region in classical times.  Alternative hypotheses hold that Albanian may have descended from //Thracian //or //Daco-Moesian//, other ancient languages spoken farther east than// Illyrian.//__ Not enough is known of these languages to completely prove or disprove the various hypotheses.__\\ \\ Source : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language|Wikipedia]]