[ noun ] a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast <noun.communication>
A lexicographer, he has just completed the first comprehensive Albanian-English dictionary. I ask him what characterises Albania and its people, with their unique Illyrian origins.
They conquered the Pannonians, of Illyrian stock, in 9 A.D. and formed the province of Pannonia, later divided into Upper and Lower Pannonia.