He also claimed to have a unique scientific understanding of this structure, supported by rigorously testable phonetic laws and observations, and this led him to coin and use a number of new words which he claimed were the ones demotic would have produced on its own if it had been free of the distorting influence of " katharevousa ".
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Cities whose names follow Albanian phonetic laws such as " Shtip " ( ` tip ), " Shkupi " ( Skopje ) and " Nish " ( Nia ) lie in the areas, believed to historically been inhabited by Thracians, Paionians and Dardani; the latter is most often considered an Illyrian tribe by ancient historians.
