Albanian
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- noun
- /ælˈbeɪniən/
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albanés
- I'm sorry, I don't speak Albanian!
- speak Albanian
- said in Albanian
- ethnic Albanian
So for example, the word for God, an Albanian is zut, zut ZUT.
- So for example, the word for God, an Albanian is zut, zut ZUT.
Examples
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Many people in Albania are fluent in Albanian and English.
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How do you say bathroom in Albanian?
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l thought you said you spoke Albanian.
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ls she saying this in Albanian?
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On an average day in Istanbul, you could hear people speaking Greek, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Albanian and Serbian.
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A native Albanian, Ali was the pasha (regional governor appointed by the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul) of Ioannina, a city in northwest Greece.
Academic text (2009) -
The term is found in the Albanian-Greek dictionary compiled in the second half of the nineteenth century by Kostandin Kristoforidhi, the celebrated translator of the Testaments into Albanian.
Academic text (2005) -
She asked me how to say "hello" in Albanian.
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The teacher instructed her students to write a short essay in Albanian.
Synonyms
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A language that people speak mainly in Albania and in nearby Balkan countries
Compounds
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A language that people speak mainly in Albania and in nearby Balkan countries
Shared cultural traditions seen in music, food, and buildings from Turkish and Albanian people
History of relations between Turkish and Albanian people, especially during Ottoman rule
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Albanian for the language comes from the country's name Albania, a name used by outsiders after an old local tribe called the Albanoi, while people in the country call their land Shqipëri. So, Albanian means the language spoken by the people of Albania.