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This paper will present the views of the following researchers: BARIC, SKOK, KATIQIC and ÇABEJ and their attitudes on the origin of Albanian language and the autochthony of the Albanian people. The treatment of the origin of a nation is undoubtedly interesting and quite difficult, and especially the origin of the Albanian people and Albanian language is of a great importance for Albanian people. In regard to the origin of the Albanian people and the Albanian language, Baric came to the conclusion that the Albanian people are the descendants of Thracian people, while the Albanian language is the direct bearer of Thracian. Katiqic and Çabej, however, support the Illyrian theory. During their scientific work, the question that these scholars were dealing with was whether Albanians were autochthonous in their land, or migrants? The prominent novelist and Balkanist, P. Skok, in his extensive studies on Balkan toponomastic, and in this regard on Albania as well, especially Shkodra and its surroundings, states his opinion that there were no traces of Albanians in this region in the ancient period. H. Baric thinks that the Albanian nation is not autochthonic in the regions it lodges today, however it came to these lands somewhat before the Slavs. E. Çabej says that we are not talking about absolute autochthony, but it is useful to ask whether Albanians are autochthonous in the regions they are dwelling today since the Greco-Roman period?

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