Language/Tosk-albanian/Pronunciation/Stress

Pronunciation - Stress in Albanian

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 vicīnus >> Alb. fqinj ‘neighbour’. In contemporary language the stress is regularly on the last syllable of the stem, but there are exceptions, cf. lúle ‘flower’ (but muzé ‘museum’), jétë ‘life’ (but këtë’ ‘this’), etc.

Source

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