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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Albanian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
The writers from the North of Albania used Latin letters under the influence of the Catholic Church, those from the South of Albania under the Greek Orthodox church used Greek letters, while others used Arabic letters under the influence of Islam. There were also attempts for an original Albanian alphabet in the period of 1750–1850.
Tirana [b] (/ t ɪ ˈ r ɑː n ə / ⓘ tih-RAH-nə, [10] [11] Albanian pronunciation:; Gheg Albanian: Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania.It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills, with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance.
An example of a font that uses turned small-capital omega ꭥ for the vowel letter ʊ. The symbol had originally been a small-capital ᴜ . Among consonant letters, the small capital letters ɢ ʜ ʟ ɴ ʀ ʁ , and also ꞯ in extIPA, indicate more guttural sounds than their base letters – ʙ is a late
A capital from a 5th-century church with an inscription using Caucasian Albanian lettering, found at Mingachevir in 1949. Although mentioned in early sources, no examples of it were known to exist until its rediscovery in 1937 by a Georgian scholar, Professor Ilia Abuladze, [14] in Matenadaran MS No. 7117, a manual from the 15th century.
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.
A weatherman in the U.K. wowed viewers this week by rattling off the name with perfect pronunciation. Actress Naomi Watts went viral earlier this year when she flawlessly pronounced the name on ...
The Elbasan Gospel Manuscript comes from the Orthodox Christian monastery of St. Jovan Vladimir's Church in the village of Shijon, west of Elbasan. [2]: 6 With the exception of a short 15th century Easter Gospel transcript, it was the oldest work of Albanian Orthodox literature, and the oldest Orthodox Bible translation into Albanian. [2]