Directory of Albanian Resources

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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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Resources in This Category

• Euromosaic - Albanian

  http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/homean/main/clasllen/albanes.html
  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).

• Language Profile: Albanian

  http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=36&menu=004
  From the UCLA Language Materials Project.

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