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Ghegs in contrast have a reputation for a distinctive variety of sung epic poetry often about the tumultuous history of the Albanian people. There are a number of internationally acclaimed singers of ethnic Albanian origin such as Ava Max, Bebe Rexha, Dua Lipa, Era Istrefi, Rita Ora, and rappers such as Action Bronson, Dardan, Gashi and ...
Albanian is declared as the native language by 98.76% of the population. The Albanian people are considered one of the most polyglot people in Europe. [7] They generally speak more than two languages, which are mainly French, Greek, Italian, and English, which are increasing due to migration return, and new Greek and Italian communities in the ...
The three haplogroups most strongly associated with Albanian people are E-V13, R1b and J2b-L283. E-V13, the most common European sub-clade of E1b1b1a (E-M78) represents about 1/3 of all Albanian men and peaks in Kosovo (~40%). The current distribution of this lineage might be the result of several demographic expansions from the Balkans, such ...
Other Albanian minorities are the Gorani people and Jews. [4] Regarding the Greeks, "it is difficult to know how many Greeks there are in Albania". The estimates vary between 60,000 and 300,000 ethnic Greeks in Albania. According to Ian Jeffries, most of Western sources put the number at around 200,000.
Albanian people by descent (19 C) Tribes of Albania (2 C, 56 P) A. African diaspora in Albania (1 C) Aromanians (11 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in ...
Albania's legal system is structured to protect its people's political rights, regardless of their ethnic, linguistic, racial, or religious affiliations. [ 179 ] [ 181 ] Despite these principles, there are significant human rights concerns in Albania that demand attention. [ 182 ]
The popular perception in non-Albanian literature of all northern Albanians as Ghegs is a product of identifying major dialect groups with all corresponding regional groupings. Likewise, only the people of certain regions in southern Albania identify as Tosks.
There are an estimated 250,000 ethnic Albanians in Switzerland, most of them from Kosovo, a sizeable minority arriving from North Macedonia. [32] Albanians have migrated to Switzerland since the 1960s, [33] but bulk of immigration took place during the 1990s, especially during 1998–1999. They account for about 2% of total Swiss population ...