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The term used by these two was fonema, the basic unit of what they called psychophonetics. Daniel Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article "The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language". [ 7 ]
Albanian (endonym: shqip ⓘ, gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ], or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group. [9] It is the native language of the Albanian people.
Features typical of Lab include the unrounding of Albanian /y/ to /i/ (), thus merging it with the /i/ phoneme, and a velar articulation for Albanian gj and q ().As such, in areas where Lab is less influenced by Standard Albanian, Albanians from elsewhere may be shocked to hear words like gjyshi (, grandfather) pronounced as gishi ().
The indefinite form of the noun is identical in the nominative and accusative cases, being the uninflected form of the noun in the singular, and the form noted above in the plural.
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").
The earliest known mention of Albanian writings comes from a French Catholic church document from 1332. [10] [11] Written either by archbishop Guillaume Adam or the monk Brocardus Monacus the report notes that Licet Albanenses aliam omnino linguam a latina habeant et diversam, tamen litteram latinam habent in usu et in omnibus suis libris ("Though the Albanians have a language entirely their ...
Pellazgjika Shqip - Vasil Dhimitër Ruso (1877) Abetare e Gjuhës Shqipe - Sami Frashëri (1879) Abetarea Shqip - Jovan Risto Terova (1887) Tri Abetaret - Parashqevi Qiriazi (1909–15) Abetareja Shqip rrieshtuarë në gjuhë të përbashkëme - Simon Shuteriqi (1911) Abetaret Xhuvani-Pogoni - Aleksandër Xhuvani, Pertef Pogoni (1922–39)
The Albanian Wikipedia (Albanian: Wikipedia Shqip) is the Albanian language edition of Wikipedia started on 12 October 2003. As of 17 February 2025, the Wikipedia has 101,694 articles and is the 73rd-largest Wikipedia.