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Yet there are some taunting evidences which account for the survival of Illyrian on modern Albanian. John Bagnell Bury, The Cambridge medieval history: Volume 1, The University press, p.546: In the Latinised north-west of the Balkan peninsula the vernacular Illyrian was never driven out or destroyed, and the present speech of the Albanians is directly derived from it in spite of a sprinkling of Latin words and expressions.