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The following examples, except for kap and jap, are all in Old Gheg, a dialect of Old Albanian, and show the verb declension in Old Albanian to trace an idea of the passage between PIE morphology and Proto-Albanian, which then evolved into Old Albanian: Standard Albanian kap < *PA *kapa < PIE *kh₂pyéti means "to seize"
The language is spoken by approximately 6 million people in the Balkans, primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. [1] However, due to old communities in Italy and the large Albanian diaspora, the worldwide total of speakers is much higher than in Southern Europe and numbers approximately 7.5 million.
The Article 14 of the Albanian Constitution states that "The official language in the Republic of Albania is Albanian." [2] According to the 2011 population census, 2,765,610, 98.767% of the population declared Albanian as their mother tongue ("mother tongue is defined as the first or main language spoken at home during childhood").
Graeco-Albanian language, also refered to as Greek Albanian or Arvanite, refers to languages and dialects spoken by Albanophone Greeks. It may refer to: Cham, a variety of Tosk Albanian spoken in the region known as Chameria; Arvanitika, a more derived variant spoken by Arvanites in Greece, chiefly the Peloponnese, Attica and Boetia
Concerning "Illyrian" of classical antiquity, it is not clear whether the scantly documented evidence actually represents one language and not material from several languages, but if "Illyrian" is defined as the ancient precursor of Albanian or the sibling of Proto-Albanian it is automatically included in this IE branch. [3]
The Lab Albanian dialect (Albanian: Labërishtja or Dialekti lab) is a Tosk Albanian dialect associated with the wider definition of the ethnographic region of Labëria, spoken by Lab Albanians. Under this wider definition of Labëria, Lab Albanian stretches from Vlorë and Mallakastër south and east up to Gjirokastër , Lunxhëria and Sarandë .
The calendar’s preoccupation with day, night, and seasonal changes may have sparked anew with a world-changing comet strike, one that experts believed occurred in roughly 10,850 B.C. and helped ...
Gjuha Shqipe (Albanian Language), practical-scientific magazine which focuses on applied linguistics and language culture. [4] ISSN 0352-1109. Both the periodicals above are published in cooperation with other Albanian and foreign researchers. Special Editions comprise published projects, monographs, biographies, folkloric materials, etc. So ...