HELLENES

We represent HELLENES and ILLYRIANS, two distinct linguistic stocks, geographically and culturally close and historically associated, by means of an ancient motif still familiar in Albanian and Greek ornamentation.

See A. Giacalone Ramat and Paolo Ramat (eds.), The Indo-European Languages, 2nd ed., London and New York, 1998: ‘Greek’, H. Hoenigswald, pp. 228–260; ‘Albanian’, Sh. Demiraj, pp. 480–501.