What happened to the Illyrians? One says they got slavicised

>>1572922
Most were slaughtered during the last Macedonian war because Illyria allied with Perseus.

Slavicized

Their language went extinct, replaced by Latin.
When Slavs came these Latinized natives were assimilated into Slavs over time. Usually they retreated south to coast so those coastal regions have most native blood. But in general South Slavs are mostly native genetically speaking, there were no extinctions in the common sense of the word.

Albanians have nothing to do with Illyrians, they probably came to Balkans sometime after Slavic invasions, and they were probably few in number and irrelevant so they escaped being mentioned up until 12th century (Albanian language was first attested in 13th century).
It's still really hard to believe that in all this time we talk about (several centuries), in a region that was under Byzantine rule, no Byzantine record mentioned Albanians.
Meanwhile they were mentioning some small Slavic tribes like Travunians.
Albanian-Illyrian connection is a scientifically dubious theory that only appeared in 19th century, and that's when Albanians started giving their kids names like Dardan and such.
It's easily the most idiotic and preposterous of national myths in Balkans, and that says a lot.

>>1572922
>they got slavicised and their blood is spread over the south slavs
this

>>1572922
more like boobolina

>>1572922
>One says they got slavicised and their blood is spread over the south slavs, others say they already went extinct b4 the migration.

You must be fucking retarded, for fuck's sake people are stupid here.

People don't just "die out" for no reason.

If you really want to know, no, obviously like most native population who already had agriculture and even urban society in this case, invaders didn't change the egentics of the place that much.

Southern Slav are still Macedonians,Illyrians, etc genetically, this is why southern and northen slav are genetically distant

>>1573139
Albanian has loanwords from Latin and Ancient Greek. They've been there for a long time

>>1574175
And Gothic too

>>1572922
Whenever you see that haplomeme image and it says "south slavic" it's codeword for Illyrian.

>>1574175
>Albanian has loanwords from Latin and Ancient Greek.

So does every European language ever.

>>1572922
Bouboulina wasn't Illyrian. Just sayin'

>>1573139
Bingo, five start post.
Just wanted to add that the Albanian language can't be descended from Illyrian, because the sound changes don't work.

>>1574447
>Just wanted to add that the Albanian language can't be descended from Illyrian, because the sound changes don't work.
Explain

>>1574161
>You must be fucking retarded, for fuck's sake people are stupid here.
harsh

>>1572922
Dang greeks sure are mistakable for Arabs

>>1572922
lots of immigration/intergration into italy & southern germany

>btfo constantinople shithole bridge to nowhere