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Shape vocabulary (Albanian)

English // Albanian

shape, form - formë

form, formed // shape (verb), shaped - formoj, formuar

circle - rreth

ellipse - elipsë

oval - ovale

angle - kënd

line - drejtëz

segment - segment

triangle - trekëndësh

tetragon - katërkëndësh

pentagon - pesëkëndësh (pentagon can be used rarely)

hexagon - gjashtëkëndësh

heptagon - shtatëkëndësh

octagon - tetëkëndësh   

nonagon - nëntëkëndësh  

decacon - dhjetëkëndësh   

polygon - shumëkëndësh   

rectangle - drejtkëndësh  

square - katror

parallelogram - paralelogram

rhombus - romb

kite - balonë

trapezium - trapez

sphere - sferë

cone - kon

pyramid - piramidë

cylinder - cilindër

prism - prizëm

star - yll

moon, crescent - hënë, gjysmëhënë

heart - zemër

cross - kryq

arrow - shigjetë

I got the idea from @languagesandshootingstars who did one for Finnish. If you want to check that out here’s the link.

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Favorite Albanian Phrases 🌹✨

Zoti qoftë me ty. (may God be with you)

“Bej syte kater” which means, “Make four eyes.” ( it means, be careful!/ kinda like eyes in the back of your head)

“Kali kuqe ka nje huqe” which means, “even the red horse has its flaw.” The meaning is that even beautiful people or things have at least one flaw.

Bukuria e vërtetë  gjendet brenda nesh. (Real beauty is inside of us.)

Çdo pyll ka derra. – “Every forest has pigs” (shit ppl are everywhere)

Lezetshëm! – “Cute / how cute!”

Rrofsh (sa malet)! – An expression of thanks! Literally means “Long life! / May you live as long as the mountains!

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Summer - Verë 

 June -  Qershor 

 July - Korrik 

 August -  Gusht 

 Travel - Udhëtoj 

 Trip/Vacation -  Udhëtim/Pushime 

 Ticket - Biletë 

 Plane -  Aeroplan/Avion

Boat - Varkë/Barkë

Beach - Plazh 

 Sea/Ocean - Det/Oqean 

 Hotel - Hotel 

 Sunlight - Dritë dielli 

 Hot - i/e Nxehtë 

 Humid - i/e Lagësht 

 Abroad - Jashtë shtetit 

 Souvenir - Suvenir

Water - Ujë 

 Fruits - Fruta

Sunglasses - Syze dielli 

 Bikini - Bikini

Shorts - Pantallona të shkurtra

Fun - Kënaqësi/Argëtim

Summer holiday - Pushimi e verës

Swim - Notoj

Sports - Sportet

Sunbathe - Bëj banjo dielli 

 Suntan - Nxirje 

 Temperature - Temperaturë

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For the translation meme: computer, computer mouse, video game, website, blog, laptop, book, novel, notebook, paper, pen, pencil, marker. (Hope it's not too much, faleminderit!)

kompjuter, maus, video lojra, faqe, blog, laptop, libër, roman, fletore, letër, stilolaps, laps, shënues.

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mountain, field, sky, water, sea, river, sun, moon, flower, grass, hill, dew, fog, sunshine, air, wind 🇦🇱 (sorry haha I like nature vocab)

mal, fushë, qiell, uji, det, lum, diell, hëna, lule, bar, kodër, vesë, mjegull, dritë dielli, ajër, erë. :)

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Status of the Albanian Language

Albanian as an official language:

Albania - 3.002.859 in 2012

Kosova - 1.8 millions in 2012

Macedonia (co-official) - 600.000 (25% of total population) in 2006

Montenegro (co-official) - 80.000 in 2002

Albanian as an recognised ethnic minority language:

Italy (Arberesh comunity) - 260.000 in 1976

Croatia (Arbanasi comunity) - 15.002 in 2001

Romania 

Serbia 

Bulgaria - 1.000 in 1963

Albanian ad a non-recognised ethnic minority language:

Greece (Arvanitas comunity) - 10.000 çam + 150.000 Arvanitas

Greece has not signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of 1992, and as such does not recognise ethnic and language minorities as part of its cultural heritage.

Turkey (Arnaut comunity) - 15.000 in 1980

Albanian is also spoken by an high number of immigrants all over the world:

Italy:  482.627 (to 700.000 due to naturalization)

Greece:  443 550 (to 600.000 due to naturalization)

Germany:  505.000

Switzerland:  400.000

UK: 350.000

USA & Canada:500.000

Netherlands: 200.000

Other countries have Albanian comunities, but their number is lower than 100.000. The total number of Albanian native speakers around the world is 12.600.000 in accordance with thei CIA’s 2003 World Factbook.

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Albanian (Shqip) is the language native to Albania, Kosovo, Epirus (Greece), and a part of Macedonia. There are also centuries-old communities speaking Albanian-based dialects in Greece, Southern Italy,Sicily, and Ukraine.

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To the people who follow me, i would firstly like to say sorry that i haven’t been active lately. And secondly, when i first started this blog i was looking for new members (because i knew i wasn’t going to be active) but i didn’t find anyone who could join. So if you are Albanian and want to join this blog w/ me then please message me (personally).

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Okay so

I’m searching for other langblrs to follow, so if you’re learning/speak any of the ones listed below please reblog or like this (or do something that’ll notify me that you’re learning the language) and I’ll check out your blog

-Spanish -Japanese -Hindi -Russian -Chinese (Mandarin) -French -Danish -Swedish -Norwegian (Bokmål) -Albanian -Icelandic -American Sign Language

thank you~

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(Almost) Everything About the Albanian Language

Information:

Albanian (In Albanian: Shqip) is a language spoken in Albania, Kosovo, Western Macedonia, Southern Montenegro, Northwestern and parts of Southeast Greece, parts of Southeastern Italy, and the Preševo Valley in Serbia.

Dialects:

There are two dialects of Albanian, Gheg and Tosk, which are broken down in much smaller subdialects. Gheg is spoken in places north of the Shkumbin River. Tosk is spoken in places south of the Shkumbin River. There are also smaller dialects such as Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Arbëresh is spoken in parts of Southeastern Italy. Arvanitika is spoken in parts of Southeastern Greece. The Gheg dialect was the official dialect of Albania, until Enver Hoxha's communist regime. 

Language Info:

Albanian is an Indo-European language, however, it has its own branch on the Indo-European family tree. Most linguists think Albanian came from the Illyrian language a long time ago. Albanian is also considered a very old language. Overtime, Albanian has been majorly affected by Latin and Ancient Greek (since they were dominant languages for a long time), so Albanian shares many words with the Romance languages, and a few with Modern Greek. Also, since Albania was under the Ottoman Empire for awhile, you will encounter MANY words that Albanian and Turkish have in common. Now here are some features of Albanian that might stress you out if you decide to learn it, but don't worry! These are pretty easy to master once you know how to use them.

Albanian Features:

Alphabet:

Albanian has 36 letters, as opposed to English's 26. The Albanian alphabet is: A B C Ç D Dh E Ë F G Gj H I J K L Ll M N Nj O P Q R Rr S Sh T Th U V X Xh Y Z Zh Yes, some letters look like two letters, but actually they are one letter. So, një has two letters, nj and ë. Rruga has 4 letters, not 5. Gjashtë has 5 letters, not 7. (I know, weird, right?)

Clitics:

Albanian is a seriously clitic language. You will hear clitics in almost every single sentence. Even in the smallest sentences such as E di, which means I know. The di is conjugated to the singular first-person form, so there's no need to include unë in the sentence, but you can if you want to. The clitic e is added in there, to literally mean I know it or I know that. So saying Unë di or just di would be grammatically incorrect. You would have to use e to make it Unë e di or E di. Also, the clitic a is usually used in yes/no questions. Such as A shkove? (Did you go?) However, when that same clitic a is added to the end of the sentence, it usually marks surprise and usually used when the speaker told the listener not to do the action. So for example, Shkove në rrugë a? would mean *So you went onto the street after all [even though I told you not to]?

Admiratives:

Apparently, Albanian has verb forms that are called miratives or admiratives. They show surprise most of the time, but can also show doubt or irony sometimes. They can be translated by using the word apparently. For example, Rruga është e mbyllur. (The road is closed. [with no surprise/informative]) and Rruga qenka e mbyllur.Apparently, the road is closed. [with surprise]

Cases:

Albanian is a case language, there are 6 cases in Albanian, but only 4 are used in everyday speech. Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, and Dative. These aren't so hard, because the Accusative is basically just the Nominative except you add an -n to the end of the definite form of the word. (Oh yes, Albanian does not have a word for a/an or the. They use different forms of the word to symbolize number and definite forms. Just like the Scandinavian languages.) Genitive is also made by just adding the correct clitic (based on the word whether its masculine or feminine) to the beginning and using the Dative form of the word. So you just have to learn the Nominative and Dative forms! :D

Word Order:

Since Albanian has an accusative form, word order is flexible. The official word order is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) but it could be any word order as long as you use the Accusative form. (If you're talking about someone eating apples, you don't want to say that the apples are eating that person!)

So, I hope I interested you in the Albanian language after this! Thank you for your time! (x) 

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The earliest known texts in Albanian:

Meshari of Gjon Buzuku 1554–1555a 208-page parchment written by Theodor of Shkodra discovered in the secret archives of Vatican. The work is a manuscript decorated with golden miniatures and colored initials, divided in three parts. Pages 1–97 deal with theology, 98–146 with philosophy, and pages 147–208 with a history of the known world from AD 153 to 1209. On the final page of the manuscript we find a note by the author “With the assistance and great love of the blessed Lord, I finished this in the year 1210 on the 9th day of March.”

the “formula e pagëzimit” (Baptismal Formula), which dates back to 1462 and was authored by Pal Engjëlli (or Paulus Angelus) (c. 1417 – 1470), Archbishop of Durrës. Engjëlli was a close friend and counsellor of Skanderbeg. It was written in a pastoral letter for a synod at the Holy Trinity in Mat and read in Latin characters as follows: Unte paghesont premenit Atit et Birit et Spertit Senit (standard Albanian: “Unë të pagëzoj në emër të Atit, të Birit e të Shpirtit të Shenjtë”; English: “I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”). It was discovered and published in 1915 by Nicolae Iorga.

the Fjalori i Arnold von Harfit (Arnold Ritter von Harff’s lexicon), a short list of Albanian phrases with German glosses, dated 1496.

a song, recorded in the Greek alphabet, retrieved from an old codex that was written in Greek. The document is also called “Perikopeja e Ungjillit të Pashkëve” or “Perikopeja e Ungjillit të Shën Mateut” (“The Song of the Easter Gospel, or "The Song of Saint Matthew’s Gospel”). Although the codex is dated to during the 14th century, the song, written in Albanian by an anonymous writer, seems to be a 16th-century writing. The document was found by Arbëreshë people who had emigrated to Italy in the 15th century. 

The first book in Albanian is the Meshari (“The Missal”), written by Gjon Buzuku between 20 March 1554 and 5 January 1555. The book was written in the Gheg dialect in the Latin script with some Slavic letters adapted for Albanian vowels. The book was discovered in 1740 by Gjon Nikollë Kazazi, the Albanian archbishop of Skopje. It contains the liturgies of the main holidays. There are also texts of prayers and rituals and catechetical texts. The grammar and the vocabulary are more archaic than those in the Gheg texts from the 17th century. The 188 pages of the book comprise about 154,000 words with a total vocabulary of c. 1,500 different words. The text is archaic yet easily interpreted because it is mainly a translation of known texts, in particular portions of the Bible. The book also contains passages from the Psalms, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Jeremiah, the Letters to the Corinthians, and many illustrations. The uniformity of spelling seems to indicate an earlier tradition of writing. The only known copy of the Meshari is held by the Apostolic Library. n 1968 the book was published with transliterations and comments by linguists.

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Animals’ names in Albanian

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The Kosovo youth just created an online platform to learn Albanian or Serbian here’s a link if you guys want to check it out!

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the project of Edon Muhaxheri at mica about the first Albanian written alphabet! ©