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Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg – Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE). [2] Albanoid and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region. [3][4] Whether descendants or sister languages of what was called ...
It [Albanian] is the official language of Albania, the co-official language of Kosovo, and the co-official language of many western municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia. Albanian is also spoken widely in some areas in Greece, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia, and in some towns in southern Italy and Sicily.
The Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon is the second oldest Albanian-language document ever retrieved, after the Formula e pagëzimit.The lexicon was written by Arnold Ritter von Harff, a German traveler, who in 1496 was spending some hours in the port of Durrës and transcribed some words of the locals Albanians, by writing on the side, the German translation of them.
Map of the geographical distribution of attested placenames with the -dava suffix, a Dacian word meaning "settlement" or "fort." This article contains a list of reconstructed words of the ancient Dacian language. They have been restored by some linguists from attested place and personal names (toponyms and anthroponyms) from the historical ...
The origin of the Albanians has been the subject of historical, linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi occurred in the 2nd century AD by Ptolemy describing an Illyrian tribe who lived around present-day central Albania. [1][2] The first attestation of medieval Albanians as an ethnic group is in ...
Albanoid or Albanic is a branch or subfamily of the Indo-European (IE) languages, of which Albanian language varieties are the only surviving representatives. In current classifications of the IE language family, Albanian is grouped in the same IE branch with Messapic , an ancient extinct language of Balkan provenance that is preserved in about ...
His Albanian Etymological Dictionary (1998) is a useful overview of existing etymologies, and it well complements his A Concise Historical Grammar of Albanian (2000). The monograph Phrygian Language (1997) summarizes the old/neo-Phrygian epigraphy, interpretation of all the known inscriptions until the 1990s and the corresponding grammatical ...
Personal details. Born. 1606. Kallmet or Nënshat in the northern Albanian Zadrima region near Lezhë. Died. 1643 (aged 36–37) Frang Bardhi (Latin: Franciscus Blancus, Italian: Francesco Bianchi, 1606–1643) was an Albanian Catholic bishop and Old Albanian author. [1][2] Bardhi is best known as an author of the early eras of Albanian literature.