Let us consider for a moment that it were possible to effortlessly revive and imminently reinstate the Illyrian language(s) throughout its former area of presence :
i.e.: to the obvious cost of Serbo-Croatian
Would this be a valuable idea or not?
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The Illyrian languages were a continuum of ancient paleo-balkanic languages distantly related to Greek and Albanian, once spoken throughout the Balkans, before being regularly displaced by Dalmatian and southern Slavic...
Sadly we have no records of it - therefore we can only refer to Greek and limited Messapian scriptures (a related language spoken in SE Italy) as well as our keen and well-grounded intuition in order to render ourselves an impression of what the language could have resembled...
* this question has no political or propagandic orientation *
i.e.: to the obvious cost of Serbo-Croatian
Would this be a valuable idea or not?
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The Illyrian languages were a continuum of ancient paleo-balkanic languages distantly related to Greek and Albanian, once spoken throughout the Balkans, before being regularly displaced by Dalmatian and southern Slavic...
Sadly we have no records of it - therefore we can only refer to Greek and limited Messapian scriptures (a related language spoken in SE Italy) as well as our keen and well-grounded intuition in order to render ourselves an impression of what the language could have resembled...
* this question has no political or propagandic orientation *
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