Gheg or Geg (Gheg Albanian: gegnisht, Standard Albanian: gegërisht) is one of the two major varieties of Albanian, the other being Tosk. The geographic...
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The Ghegs (also spelled as Gegs; Albanian: Gegët) are one of two major ethnic subgroups of Albanians (the other being the Tosks). They are differentiated...
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follows: Indo-European Albanian Tosk Northern Tosk Albanian Southern Tosk Arbëreshë Albanian Arvanitika Albanian Gheg Albanian The first attested written...
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The Albanian language is composed of many dialects, divided into two major groups: Gheg and Tosk. The Shkumbin river is roughly the geographical dividing...
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Kosovars (Albanian: Kosovarët), constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo. Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub-group of Ghegs, who inhabit...
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Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg–Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE). Albanoid and other...
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Albania (/ælˈbeɪniə, ɔːl-/ a(w)l-BAY-nee-ə; Albanian: Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë), is...
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and n in Gheg. Proto-Albanian *ō becomes va. Nasal vowels: There is a lack of nasal vowels in Tosk (e.g. sy "eye") and Late Proto-Albanian *â plus a...
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Shqiptar (category Articles containing Gheg Albanian-language text)
Shqiptar (Albanian definite form: Shqip(ë)tari; Gheg Albanian: Shqyptar/-i; plural: Shqiptarë/-t, Shqyptarë/-t) is an Albanian ethnonym (endonym), by which...
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The first women's association in Albania was founded in 1909. Albanian women from the northern Gheg region resided within a conservative and patriarchal...
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Arbanasi dialect (category Articles containing Gheg Albanian-language text)
(natively: Arbëneshë) is a dialect of Gheg Albanian that is spoken in long-standing diaspora communities of Albanians in Croatia. Its speakers originated...
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Prende (category Articles containing Gheg Albanian-language text)
Albanian after her: e premte, premtja (Gheg Albanian: e prende, prendja). In Albanian mythology Prende appears as the daughter of Zojz, the Albanian sky...
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(also Gheg Albanian: Kanû/-ja, other names include Albanian: doke, zakon, venom, usull, itifatk, adet, sharte, udhë, rrugë) is a set of Albanian traditional...
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Dheu (redirect from Dheu (Albanian paganism))
living Earth. Zonja e Dheut (also Gheg Albanian: Zôja e Dheut) is used in Albanian to refer to the Earth Goddess. The Albanian theonyms Zonja e Dheut and Dheu...
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be a diagnostic feature separating Southern (Tosk) Albanian from Northern (Gheg) Albanian, Albanian linguists Dilo Sheper and Gjinari have reported that...
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Arbanasi people (category Articles containing Gheg Albanian-language text)
of Albanian ethnic origin. They are traditional speakers of the Arbanasi dialect of Gheg Albanian. Their name is an obsolete way to say Albanians in Croatian...
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Tirana (redirect from Tirana, Albania)
(/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə, Albanian pronunciation: [tiˈɾana]; Gheg Albanian: Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre...
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Istrian Albanian was a Gheg variety of the Albanian language, spoken in the village of Katun in the area of Poreč, Istria.[citation needed][failed verification]...
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The Albanians, during the Middle Ages, referred to their country as Arbëria (Gheg Albanian: Arbënia) and called themselves Arbëreshë (Gheg Albanian: Arbëneshë)...
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Dhampir (category Articles containing Gheg Albanian-language text)
dhampir is an Albanian word from which it evolved through Albanian sound changes. Superficially it seems to derive from the Gheg Albanian words dhamb 'tooth'...
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ethnonym for Albanians would appear as Arbanasi. Meanwhile, the Albanians, during the Middle Ages, referred to their country as Arbëria (Gheg Albanian: Arbënia)...
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Vampire (category Articles containing Gheg Albanian-language text)
etymology is unclear. In Albanian the words lu(v)gat and dhampir are used; the latter seems to be derived from the Gheg Albanian words dham 'tooth' and...
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Kostandin Kristoforidhi (category Articles containing Albanian-language text)
an Albanian translator and scholar. He is mostly known for having translated the New Testament into Albanian for the first time in the Gheg Albanian dialect...
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Albanian folklore is the folk tradition of the Albanian people. Albanian traditions have been orally transmitted – through memory systems that have survived...
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Lakror (redirect from Albanian vegetable pie)
Lakror (Gheg Albanian: Laknor, Arbëreshë Albanian: Lakruar) is a traditional and common regional Albanian pie dish of Albania made with different fillings...
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Upper Reka dialect (redirect from Upper Reka Albanian dialect)
The Upper Reka Albanian dialect is a member of the wider northern Gheg subgroup of the Albanian language spoken by northern Albanians. Speakers of the...
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jewellery amongst the Albanian diaspora. Albanians can be culturally and linguistically separated into two groups such as the northern Ghegs and southern Tosks...
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and arbar, the term in Albanian became rendered as Arbëreshë (Gheg Albanian: Arbëneshë) for the people and Arbëria (Gheg Albanian: Arbënia) for the country...
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public schools. The Albanian language is the official language of Albania. It has two distinct dialects, Tosk, spoken in the south, and Gheg, spoken in the...
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The Albanian–Eastern Romance linguistic parallels are subject of historical and contact linguistic research applied to the Albanian and Eastern Romance...
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