Albanian
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Albanian
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Albanian
language
Albanian: Official language of Number of Albanian Speakers: 6.4 million.
Albanian Speakers: About 300,000
Language Classification: Indo-European. No close affinity to
other Indo-European languages.
Albanian Dialects: Gheg dialect in the North and Tosk
dialect in the South. See the Albanian Overview for more
information on dialects in
Albanian Alphabet: In 36 Roman characters. Word system in
archaic traits.
Albanian Orthography: Standard Roman style adapted in 1909
based on
Albanian Language Enriched by: Turkish and Arabic. |
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Albanian Language History: 1462. Earliest purely literary is
the poetry in 18th century by Jul Varibobo of the enclave of
St. Giorgio in Albanian Standardization Efforts: 1909.
Unique
Features of Albanian: Albanian music is well-known in the
region.
The
Albanian name comes from the records since the time of
Ptolemy. In Calabrian Albanian the name is Arbresh, in
Modern Greek Arvan’tis, and in Turkish Arnavut.
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