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The Illyrians were an Indo-European people, who inhabited the western Balkans up into Pannonia in ancient times. They spoke languages grouped in the Illyrian languages, a separate branch of Indo-European.
Whether the Albanian language descends from an Illyrian language is disputed among scholars (see Origin of Albanians).