Albanian European Indo Natural Languages Linguistics

Albanian is an family of related Indo-European languages spoken in Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Solvenia, Greece, Italy, parts of the former Republic of Yugoslavia and others. Albanian appears to be the sole modern survivor of its own subgroup, possibly descended either from Dacian or Illyrian. The two major subfamilies of Albanian are Gheg and Tosk which are reported to be mutually unintelligible. Within the Tosk subgroup are Arbëreshë, Arvanitika and Tosk, speakers of which are reported to have varying degrees of mutual intelligibility though there is some disagreement as to the degree.

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• - Introduction to the history, grammar, vocabulary, and dialects of Albanian, with a short glossary of everyday terms and expressions (with downloadable sound files).
  
• - History and orthography of Albanian, online lessons, conversational phrase book (of Albanian for English speakers, as well as of English for Albanian speakers), comments on the translation of literary texts into Albanian, and links to related cultural sit
  
• - Linguistic description of Albanian and links to related sites. Trilingual site (English, German, and Albanian).
  
• - Historical and grammatical information on the Albanian language.
  
• - Sociolinguistic survey of the use of Albanian as a minority language within the European Union (in Greece and Italy). Collection of links. Bilingual site (English and French).
  
  

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