(March 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm)polymath257 Wrote: There may be linguists that care about this. I don't know. Even if true, though, so what? Does it say anything about ancient migrations? Culture? Anything of interest?Well, if Illyrian really was a centum language (as I claim in that paper), that means Albanian is not descended from Illyrian. So, yeah, I am implying quite some ancient migrations.
As far as I can see, the statistics are poor, the topic is irrelevant to all but a very few, and it is far from clear that the conclusions are correct.
Not to mention: how its it relevant for this forum???
What do you mean by "statistics are poor"?