#gjuha shqipe

[kafsho]

[moonschocolate]

Më fal por gjuha ime nënë është gjuha shqipe

THE DAY OF LANGUAGES!!!

This 7th of May, 2024, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you can speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-verbal, non-written languages (like sign language, dialects, otherwise non-written languages) are more than welcome! See my FAQ for tips

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

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[xhemilbeharaj]

Thyerja e aplikacionit sekret zbuloi bandat e drogës: Gjuha shqipe më e përdorura pas anglishtes.

Thyerja e aplikacionit sekret zbuloi bandat e drogës: Gjuha shqipe më e përdorura pas anglishtes.

Që nga torturat dhe vrasjet në Holandë dhe Serbi në një rrjet të paprecedentë korrupsioni në Belgjikë, hetimi mbi “Sky ECC“ ka hedhur dritë në disa nga qoshet më të errëta të Evropës, shkruajnë sot mediat franceze. “Sky ECC” ishte një aplikacion i sigurt mesazhesh dikur i vlerësuar nga baronët e krimit të drogës. Por, pasi u godit nga hetuesit në vitin 2021, ka sjellë rënien e disave prej…

[mmandarinaa]

Ai që e pagëzoi i pari gjini të bukur gjininë femërore, e pati apo jo me qëllim të lajkatonte, ka qenë më i frymëzuar nga ç’e besonte ai vetë. - Immanuel Kant

[serahphine]

Mbete duke m’thirr ne telefon, po hajt se t’kalon

[thelanguagecommunity]

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Albanian. It will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

info

about world languages

albanian dialects 

bbc country profile

encyclopaedia britannica

fun facts

glottolog

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

omniglot

playlist of samples

the indo-european database

wikipedia

world atlas of language structures

alphabet

accent codes

albanian alphabet

keyboard - branah

overview of the history of albanian orthography

courses

bliubliu

book2

colloquial albanian [pdf & audio]

dliflc - albanian: supplementary reader, part 1 [scans]

dliflc - basic course [scans]

dliflc - basic course: basic situations [scans]

discovering albanian 1 [pdf]]

lingohut

peace corps

pimsleur [pdf & audio]

university of texas at austin

us state department - albanian: a guide to the spoken language [scans]

cultural & historical info

acultura’s culture tag

dliflc - cultural orientation

overview of albanian names

dictionaries

argjiro

bablefish [translator]

ectaco

fjalori.shkenca

lexilogos

lingvosoft

flashcards

cram

quizlet

forums

quora

/r/albania

/r/shqip

unilang

grammar books & guides

albanian grammar [pdf]

standard albanian: a reference grammar for students [pdf]

grammar points

adjectives

adverbs

articles

gender

negation

nouns

plurals

prepositions

pronouns

questions

listening practice

Bible [audio]

lyrikline [poetry library]

literature

Baha’i prayers

Bible / Bible [scans]

list of albanian poets

list of albanian writers

liturgy of st. john chrysostom

Lord’s prayer

overview by encyclopaedia britannica

overview of albanian literature

Quran [pdf] / Quran [scans]

spoken language services: readings in albanian, pt 1 [scans]

universal declaration of human rights

media

ted talks

movie & tv recommendations

central state film archive

letterboxd

music recommendations

albanian music for almost every emotional love related situation by @voglushja

news

24 orë

ballkan

deutsche welle

newspaper links

radio free europe

voice of america

phrasebooks & travel guides

bbc quick fix

be in kosovo

dliflc - basic survival guide

loecsen [audio phrasebook]

useful expressions

wikitravel

wikivoyage

pronunciation

forvo [pronunciation dictionary]

ipa key

pronunciation guide - wikibooks

sounds unfamiliar to english speakers

the phonetics of albanian - g. s. lowman [scans]

quizzes & exercises

digitaldialects [vocabulary games]

tongue twisters

radio

radio links - radio-locator

sbs radio

social media

google

wikipedia

speaking tips

proverbs

special topics

list of given names

palindromes

tumblrs

@albanian-studies

@albanianvoices

@arberisht

verbs

conjugator - verbix

verbs

vocabulary

animals / animals / animals / animals

art

babadada [vocabulary tool]

body parts

clothing

cognates - illyrian

colors / colors / colors

cute

eurovision

family / family

food / food & cooking / fruits & vegetables

fruits

hair

hobbies

lgbtq+

locations

mental health

months

movie night

nationalities

nature

numbers / numbers / numbers / numbers

seasons

shapes

space

spring

summer / summer

swadesh list

terms of endearment

time

winter

witchy

zodiac

youtube

learnalbanianonline

smart albanian with jonis

violagj

G H E G   A L B A N I A N

omniglot [useful phrases]

rosary prayers

T O S K   A L B A N I A N

a report of the stanford phonology archive [scans]

overview of albanian morphology

in french / en français

dictionaric [dictionary]

glossary

in spanish / en español

foreignword [dictionary]

[voglushja]

albanian music for almost every emotional love related situation

Pershendetje, after my “This piece of shit ain’t worth it. Dreqi kryt ja hangt”- Playlist (which is around two years old), I thought about doing another playlist regarding to different kind of (emotonal)situations. Cause we all know: music heals, music expresses your feelings e music kajher ta qin nanen. I know there are way moooore songs, that should be part of this list. Po smuj te gjithat mi fut me nje postim. Nese ju pelqen lista, e boj ni part 2. Have fun e mos kani shume :D PS:  I know everyone has a different taste in music and it’s okay if you don’t like mine.

That piece of shit doesn't deserve you!

Beatrix Ramosaj - Pa Ndjenje

Ari Blue - A jena a s'jena

Lyrical Son - I re pishmon

Nora Istrefi - Sa t'kom dasht

Dhurata Dora - Numrin e ri

Greta Koçi - I besova

Flori Mumajesi - Nallane

Flori Mumajesi - Nallane 2 

Flori Mumajesi - Nallane 3

Samanta Karavella - Zemren maje

Alban Ramosaj - A me do

Fifi - Dashnia nuk eshte falas

Dina Qamili - Provo edhe ik

Oh dashni, dashni.. jom ra n dashni

Vig Poppa ft. Dhurata Dora - Zoom Zoom

Vig Poppa ft. Tuna - Zemra jem

Kida - Ski Ide

Diona Fona - Shootah

Kida - Pe du

Butrint Imeri - Bella

Lumi B ft. Dhurata Dora - Simpatia

Ardian Bujupi ft. Capital T - Andiamo

Majk ft. Ghetto Geasy - Ajo

Era Istrefi - Njo si ti

Ledri Vula ft. Young Zerka - Nona

Dhurata Dora - Bubble

Ardian Bujupi ft. Dalool - Te du krejt

Samanta - Si ai

Ah bre problemet.. pom don s’pom don, shkove s’shkove 

Xhensila Myrtezaj ft. Kida - Uh Baby

Mozzik - Xhelozia

Nora Istrefi ft. Gjiko - Gabime

Yll Limani - Besom

Flori Mumajesi ft. Argjentina Ramosaj - Ku isha une

Kida ft. Ermal Fejzullahu - Mi Amore

Ermal Fejzullahu ft. Nora Istrefi - Hije

Nora Istrefi - Majem

Besa ft. Flori - 123

Ledri Vula - U harrum

Tori ft. Elinel - Eja

Lyrical Son - Pse t'fola

Era Istrefi - E dehun

Majk - Dashni

Capital T - Pse po ma lun lojen

Pergjithmone ❤ Askush sna n'dan!

Xhensila Myrtezaj ft. Mozzik - Ama doren

Enis Bytyqi - Ani ani

Nora Istrefi ft. Robert Berisha - Ska Inat

Xhensila Myrtezaj ft. Granit Derguti - Lova

Ardian Bujupi ft. Dalool - Na jena njo

Ronela Hajati ft: Young Zerka - Syni jem

Ledri Vula - A jena mire

Elvana Gjata - Love Me

Samanta ft. Gent Fatali - Na e dina

Enca ft. Noizy - Bow Down

Capital T ft. Dhurata Dora - Bongo

Ndarja..

Xhensila Myrtezaj ft. Irkenc Hyka - Si te jem mire

Enis Bytyqi - Mall

Enis Bytyqi - A kam une faj

2TON - Urime

Flori Mumajesi ft. Elinel - Ne Shpirt

Shkurte Gashi ft. Flori Mumajesi - Tu Luta

Alban Skenderaj - 1000 Premtime

Yll Limani - Najher

Majk - Fund

Kida - Anderr

Era Istrefi - 13

Kida - Mke rrejt

Yll Limani - Ke pi sonte shume

Neetah - Pran meje

Po i him fellit

Alban Skenderaj - Nuk je vetem

Ledri Vula ft. Flori Mumajesi - Beautiful

Ledri Vula - Ni Gote Per Ty

Mc Kresha - Era

Alban Skenderaj ft. Elinel - Kam Nevoje

2po2 ft. Elinel - Hipokrit

[nunushi]

"Ti u thua të gjithëve se je mirë,sepse është e vështirë të gjesh njerëz që të dëgjojnë e jo më të të kuptojnë."

[silentambassadors]

Happy Day of the Albanian Alphabet, Albanian speakers!  The Congress of Manastir was held on this date in 1908 with the goal of standardizing the Albanian alphabet--which, up to that point, had been written in at least six distinct alphabets.  Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo, as well as a recognized minority language in Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, and Italy.

Stamp details: Stamps on top: Issued on: November 14, 1988 From: Tirana, Albania MC #2381-2382

Middle stamps: Issued on: November 14, 2008 From: Tirana, Albania MC #3284-3285

Stamps on bottom: Issued on: November 14, 2008 From: Priština, Kosovo MC #116-117

[mplasibyca]

Ai: Ke ndryshuar shum ti..

Une: Jo jo thjesht kam ngren me shum dhe sjam mar me me ty

[qershie]

Më do mua Apo do dikë Ka diferenc.

@qershie

[arberisht]

(Almost) Everything About the Albanian Language

Information:

Albanian (In Albanian: Shqip) is a language spoken in Albania, Kosovo, Western Macedonia, Southern Montenegro, Northwestern and parts of Southeast Greece, parts of Southeastern Italy, and the Preševo Valley in Serbia.

Dialects:

There are two dialects of Albanian, Gheg and Tosk, which are broken down in much smaller subdialects. Gheg is spoken in places north of the Shkumbin River. Tosk is spoken in places south of the Shkumbin River. There are also smaller dialects such as Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Arbëresh is spoken in parts of Southeastern Italy. Arvanitika is spoken in parts of Southeastern Greece. The Gheg dialect was the official dialect of Albania, until Enver Hoxha's communist regime. 

Language Info:

Albanian is an Indo-European language, however, it has its own branch on the Indo-European family tree. Most linguists think Albanian came from the Illyrian language a long time ago. Albanian is also considered a very old language. Overtime, Albanian has been majorly affected by Latin and Ancient Greek (since they were dominant languages for a long time), so Albanian shares many words with the Romance languages, and a few with Modern Greek. Also, since Albania was under the Ottoman Empire for awhile, you will encounter MANY words that Albanian and Turkish have in common. Now here are some features of Albanian that might stress you out if you decide to learn it, but don't worry! These are pretty easy to master once you know how to use them.

Albanian Features:

Alphabet:

Albanian has 36 letters, as opposed to English's 26. The Albanian alphabet is: A B C Ç D Dh E Ë F G Gj H I J K L Ll M N Nj O P Q R Rr S Sh T Th U V X Xh Y Z Zh Yes, some letters look like two letters, but actually they are one letter. So, një has two letters, nj and ë. Rruga has 4 letters, not 5. Gjashtë has 5 letters, not 7. (I know, weird, right?)

Clitics:

Albanian is a seriously clitic language. You will hear clitics in almost every single sentence. Even in the smallest sentences such as E di, which means I know. The di is conjugated to the singular first-person form, so there's no need to include unë in the sentence, but you can if you want to. The clitic e is added in there, to literally mean I know it or I know that. So saying Unë di or just di would be grammatically incorrect. You would have to use e to make it Unë e di or E di. Also, the clitic a is usually used in yes/no questions. Such as A shkove? (Did you go?) However, when that same clitic a is added to the end of the sentence, it usually marks surprise and usually used when the speaker told the listener not to do the action. So for example, Shkove në rrugë a? would mean *So you went onto the street after all [even though I told you not to]?

Admiratives:

Apparently, Albanian has verb forms that are called miratives or admiratives. They show surprise most of the time, but can also show doubt or irony sometimes. They can be translated by using the word apparently. For example, Rruga është e mbyllur. (The road is closed. [with no surprise/informative]) and Rruga qenka e mbyllur.Apparently, the road is closed. [with surprise]

Cases:

Albanian is a case language, there are 6 cases in Albanian, but only 4 are used in everyday speech. Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, and Dative. These aren't so hard, because the Accusative is basically just the Nominative except you add an -n to the end of the definite form of the word. (Oh yes, Albanian does not have a word for a/an or the. They use different forms of the word to symbolize number and definite forms. Just like the Scandinavian languages.) Genitive is also made by just adding the correct clitic (based on the word whether its masculine or feminine) to the beginning and using the Dative form of the word. So you just have to learn the Nominative and Dative forms! :D

Word Order:

Since Albanian has an accusative form, word order is flexible. The official word order is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) but it could be any word order as long as you use the Accusative form. (If you're talking about someone eating apples, you don't want to say that the apples are eating that person!)

So, I hope I interested you in the Albanian language after this! Thank you for your time! (x) 

[mmandarinaa]

Tokë me nda nuk kam

Tokë me nda nuk kam

Hasmi në pidh t’samës

Me vdekë duhet mësue

Qençe nuk jetohet më.

Ali Podrimja

[serahphine]

you can try it shpirto, but you’ll never do it like me.

[arbenia]

The earliest known texts in Albanian:

Meshari of Gjon Buzuku 1554–1555a 208-page parchment written by Theodor of Shkodra discovered in the secret archives of Vatican. The work is a manuscript decorated with golden miniatures and colored initials, divided in three parts. Pages 1–97 deal with theology, 98–146 with philosophy, and pages 147–208 with a history of the known world from AD 153 to 1209. On the final page of the manuscript we find a note by the author "With the assistance and great love of the blessed Lord, I finished this in the year 1210 on the 9th day of March."

the "formula e pagëzimit" (Baptismal Formula), which dates back to 1462 and was authored by Pal Engjëlli (or Paulus Angelus) (c. 1417 – 1470), Archbishop of Durrës. Engjëlli was a close friend and counsellor of Skanderbeg. It was written in a pastoral letter for a synod at the Holy Trinity in Mat and read in Latin characters as follows: Unte paghesont premenit Atit et Birit et Spertit Senit (standard Albanian: "Unë të pagëzoj në emër të Atit, të Birit e të Shpirtit të Shenjtë"; English: "I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit"). It was discovered and published in 1915 by Nicolae Iorga.

the Fjalori i Arnold von Harfit (Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon), a short list of Albanian phrases with German glosses, dated 1496.

a song, recorded in the Greek alphabet, retrieved from an old codex that was written in Greek. The document is also called "Perikopeja e Ungjillit të Pashkëve" or "Perikopeja e Ungjillit të Shën Mateut" ("The Song of the Easter Gospel, or "The Song of Saint Matthew's Gospel"). Although the codex is dated to during the 14th century, the song, written in Albanian by an anonymous writer, seems to be a 16th-century writing. The document was found by Arbëreshë people who had emigrated to Italy in the 15th century. 

The first book in Albanian is the Meshari ("The Missal"), written by Gjon Buzuku between 20 March 1554 and 5 January 1555. The book was written in the Gheg dialect in the Latin script with some Slavic letters adapted for Albanian vowels. The book was discovered in 1740 by Gjon Nikollë Kazazi, the Albanian archbishop of Skopje. It contains the liturgies of the main holidays. There are also texts of prayers and rituals and catechetical texts. The grammar and the vocabulary are more archaic than those in the Gheg texts from the 17th century. The 188 pages of the book comprise about 154,000 words with a total vocabulary of c. 1,500 different words. The text is archaic yet easily interpreted because it is mainly a translation of known texts, in particular portions of the Bible. The book also contains passages from the Psalms, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Jeremiah, the Letters to the Corinthians, and many illustrations. The uniformity of spelling seems to indicate an earlier tradition of writing. The only known copy of the Meshari is held by the Apostolic Library. n 1968 the book was published with transliterations and comments by linguists.

[hane-moj]

Kur më vie momenti i thurrjes së fjalëve, mendojë se dhe gjuha shqipe i ka pak 36 shkronja…