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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Albanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Albanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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.
The International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. [1] The following tables present pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants.
The earliest known mention of Albanian writings comes from a French Catholic church document from 1332. [2] [3] 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 own ...
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ] , / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters . Ç or ç ( C-cedilla ) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian , Azerbaijani , Manx , Tatar , Turkish , Turkmen , Kurdish , Kazakh , and Romance alphabets.
Ë is the 8th letter of the Albanian alphabet and represents the vowel /ə/, like the pronunciation of the a in "ago". It is the fourth most commonly used letter of the language, comprising 7.74 percent of all writings.
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Until the 1980s Arbëresh was mostly a spoken language, except for its written form used in the Italo-Albanian Byzantine Church, and Arbëreshë people had no practical connection with the Standard Albanian language – which was unified as a mainly Gheg-based standard from 1908 to 1969, and as a mainly Tosk-based standard from 1969 – as they ...