Many scholars believe that today's Albanians are their descendants, and that the Albanian language -- which forms its own, unique branch of the Indo-European language family -- is derived from ancient Illyrian.
Mnogi naučnici veruju da su današnji Albanci njihovi potomci i da albanski jezik -- koji čini sopstvenu, jedinstvenu granu indo-evropske jezičke porodice -- potiče od drevnih Ilira.