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Graeco-Albanian

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Graeco-Albanian
Albano-Greek
(proposed)
Geographic
distribution
Southern Europe
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Proto-languageProto-Graeco-Albanian
Subdivisions
Balkanic
The Palaeo-Balkanic Indo-European branch based on the chapters "Albanian" (Hyllested & Joseph 2022) and "Armenian" (Olsen & Thorsø 2022) in Olander (ed.)The Indo-European Language Family

Graeco-AlbanianorAlbano-Greekis a proposedIndo-Europeansubfamily – in the broader linguistic family known as(Palaeo-)Balkanic Indo-European– of which the only surviving representatives areAlbanianandGreek.[1][2]This Indo-European subfamily encompasses theAlbanoid (Illyric)subbranch (AlbanianandMessapic), and theGraeco-Phrygiansubbranch (GreekandPhrygian).[1][2]Within the Palaeo-Balkan branch this IE subfamily is separated fromArmenian.[1][2]

Graeco-Albanian potential innovations[edit]

Innovative creations ofagriculturalterms shared only between Albanian and Greek, such as*h₂(e)lbʰ-it-'barley' and*spor-eh₂-'seed', were formed from non-agricultural Proto-Indo-European roots through semantic changes to adapt them for agriculture. Since they are limited only to Albanian and Greek, they could be traced back with certainty only to their last common Indo-European ancestor, and not projected back intoProto-Indo-European.[3]

Criticism[edit]

According to linguist Lucien van Beek – the author of the chapter "Greek" in the same bookThe Indo-European Language Familyby Thomas Olander (ed., 2022) – a number of potential Greek and Albanian common innovations adduced in the chapter "Albanian" by Hyllested and Joseph "can or must be dated later thanProto-Greek",concluding that he is" not convinced of a close genetic relation between Greek and Albanian ".[4]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^abcHyllested & Joseph 2022,p. 241.
  2. ^abcHolst 2009,p. 65–66.
  3. ^Kroonen et al. 2022,pp. 11, 26, 28
  4. ^van Beek 2022,p. 196.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Holst, Jan Henrik (2009).Armenische Studien(in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag.ISBN9783447061179.
  • Joseph, Brian D.(2013). Spiro, Aristotel (ed.)."On Old and New Connections between Greek and Albanian: Some Grammatical Evidence".Albanohellenica(5). Albanian-Greek Philological Association: 9–22.
  • Kroonen, Guus; Jakob, Anthony; Palmér, Axel I.; van Sluis, Paulus; Wigman, Andrew (12 October 2022)."Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages".PLOS ONE.17(10): e0275744.Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1775744K.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0275744.ISSN1932-6203.PMC9555676.PMID36223379.
  • Olander, Thomas, ed. (2022).The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective.Cambridge University Press.doi:10.1017/9781108758666.ISBN978-1-108-49979-8.S2CID161016819.