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For example, *bʰéreti 'he bears' can be split into the root *bʰer-'to bear', the suffix *-e-which governs the imperfective aspect, and the ending *-ti, which governs the present tense, third-person singular. [b] The suffix is sometimes missing, which has been interpreted as a zero suffix. [2] Words with zero suffix are termed root verbs and ...
The language is spoken by approximately 6 million people in the Balkans, primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. [1] However, due to old communities in Italy and the large Albanian diaspora, the worldwide total of speakers is much higher than in Southern Europe and numbers approximately 7.5 million.
Mesi Bridge standing above the Kir river stream in north-western Albania was declared a cultural monument on June 10, 1973.. In Albania, a cultural monument (Albanian: monument kulture) is a construction or work of cultural, historical and artistic value that is built in a visible space, made in memory of important events or prominent people.
After its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania was divided into districts until the year 2000. [1] During the 1920s and 1930s, there were 39 districts.
The zero grade radical of *di̯ḗu̯s and the epithet "father" are thought to be contained in an Albanian noun for "god" and the supreme entity – Zot.It is traditionally considered to be derived from Proto-Albanian *dźie̅u ̊ a(t)t-, an old compound for 'heavenly father' stemming PIE *dyew-('sky, heaven, bright') attached to *átta ('father'), thus a cognate to PIE *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr and ...
The Albanian National Awakening (Albanian: Rilindja or Rilindja Kombëtare), commonly known as the Albanian Renaissance or Albanian Revival, is a period throughout the 19th and 20th century of a cultural, political, and social movement in the Albanian history where the Albanian people gathered strength to establish an independent cultural and political life, as well as the country of Albania.
The root ultimately originated from the name of the Illyrian tribe Albanoi, [14] early generalized to all the Illyrian tribes speaking the same idiom. [15] The process was similar to the spread of the name Illyrians from a small group of people on the Adriatic coast, the Illyrioi .
An entire chapter of the Organic Statute was devoted to the administrative division of Albania, explicitly preserving Ottoman names and terms. The primary division was into the 7 sanjaks of Durrës, Berat, Dibër, Elbasan, Gjirokastër, Korçë, and Shkodër. [10] Each would be administered from its namesake city except Dibër. [11]