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Pronunciation - Stress in Albanian
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Si jeni, Albanian Learners? 😃

➡ 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 ‘friend’, L imperātor >> Alb. mbret ‘king’, L vicÄ«nus >> Alb. fqinj ‘neighbour’. In contemporary language the stress is regularly on the last syllable of the stem, but there are exceptions, cf. lĂșle ‘flower’ (but muzĂ© ‘museum’), jĂ©tĂ« ‘life’ (but kĂ«të’ ‘this’), etc.

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https://mudrac.ffzg.hr/~rmatasov/Albanian.pdf

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