Albanian

Albanian (Shqip) is a language with two dialects : the Gegisch (north) and the Toskisch (south). Albanian is the only official language in Albania and is further spoken by ethnic Albanians in Italy , Kosovo , Macedonia , Montenegro and Turkey .

The autonomous nature of the Albanian's late come to light. The grammatical structure is relatively independent but there are many loan words from Latin and other languages. The original nucleus has evolved. The research, which especially takes place under the umbrella Albanology is complicated because the earliest texts dating from the 15th century .

Content

 * 1 Classification
 * 2 Sounds
 * 2.1 Vowels
 * 2.2 Consonants
 * 3 See also

Classification
Around 1850 it was shown that Albanian an Indo-European language. At the origin would Illyrian or Messapian are two languages ​​in antiquity and during the beginning of the Roman Empire were spoken in Southern Europe. It is unclear whether these languages ​​were different branches of the Indo-European language family.

Albanian dialect can be divided into two groups and four dialects:
 * Gegische group spoken in northern Albania, Kosovo , Montenegro and Macedonia
 * Tosk group
 * Arberisch spoken in Southern Italy
 * Arvanitika spoken in Greece
 * Toskisch spoken in southern Albania

[Sounds edit ]
Note: all sounds like in the Dutch except where indicated otherwise.

Albanian spelled phonetically. Also, foreign names usually pinned (as Xhon for the English name John).

[Vowels edit ]
Albanian has seven vowels A, E, E, I, O, U, Y Vowels can be long or short, but there is usually no significant difference expressed it. Only for the U and Y may be the length of the vowel are important: the long U and Y are therefore as a UE, respectively. YE spelled.

[Consonants edit ]
And 29 consonants: B, C, C, D, Dh, F, G, Gj, H, J, K, L, Ll, M, N, Nj, P, Q, R, Rr, S, Sh, T, Th, V, X, Xh, Z, Zh.