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Pronunciation - Stress in Albanian
Si jeni, Albanian Learners? đ
⥠In today's lesson you will learn how to use stress when speaking Albanian.
Early Proto-Albanian probably had a dynamic stress on the first syllable. Early Latin loan-words stressed on the penultimate lost the unstressed initial syllable(s), cf. L amicus >> Alb. mik âfriendâ, L imperÄtor >> Alb. mbret âkingâ, L vicÄ«nus >> Alb. fqinj âneighbourâ. In contemporary language the stress is regularly on the last syllable of the stem, but there are exceptions, cf. lĂșle âflowerâ (but muzĂ© âmuseumâ), jĂ©tĂ« âlifeâ (but kĂ«tĂ«â âthisâ), etc.
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https://mudrac.ffzg.hr/~rmatasov/Albanian.pdf
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