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The origins of the Albanianpeople, as was mentioned before, are not definitely known, but data drawn from history and from linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological studies have led to the conclusion that Albanians are the direct descendants of the ancient Illyrians and that the latter were natives of the lands they inhabited.
Similarly, the Albanian language derives from the language of the Illyrians, the transition from Illyrian to Albanian apparently occurring between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
The Illyrians were not a uniform body of people but a conglomeration of many tribes that inhabited the western part of the Balkans, from what is now Slovenia in the northwest to and including the region of Epirus, which extends about halfway down the mainland of modern Greece.
The Albanian speakers of Greece are bilingual in Modern Greek and the local variety of Albanian known as ArvanÃtika; the latter belongs to the southern or Tosk dialect of the language.
The Arvanites are, dispite the degree of Greek genetic admixture, descendant to the Albanian immigrants.
Albanian in this context is an anachronism used in the absence of a neutral term covering all such related groups, but we are not bound to use it when it is easily avoidable by way of a periphrastic description.
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