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walkingtalkingdread t1_j5mr5eu wrote

that’s honestly really interesting to think about, a foreign language being documented for the first time.

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gnochii_ t1_j5mtsfm wrote

Albania appreciators 🗿🗿🗿

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Crabrubber t1_j5mwijn wrote

"My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Albanian gang or something. There was this guy, he looked Albanian... and he was speaking another language... I'm pretty sure it was... Albanian."

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EstablishmentScary18 t1_j5myjc1 wrote

I was told - by an Albanian, that there is no word in the language for "privacy". Thought that was interesting. Does anyone know if this is true?

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lllldddd01 t1_j5mywnz wrote

Did you purposely turn "crying" into "yelling" into the title for clicks?

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jcd1974 t1_j5myxei wrote

Somethings never change!

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newdaynewrule t1_j5n4pt2 wrote

OP's linked wikipedia article is really interesting. The point in the article to which OP links is talking about theories of the evolution of the language. It is a cool area of scholarship about which I knew almost nothing.

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NightAgitated1752 t1_j5nehel wrote

Replying to EstablishmentScary18 (#1,461,936)

It looks like the word intimitet is their noun word for privacy. However I feel like what the Albanian might mean is that their concept of privacy is different to that of the West. However considering they follow the EU standard of GDPR, I would say that it is likely similar.

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DontJealousMe t1_j5no8os wrote

Wasn’t it Illyrian earlier until Ottoman times

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alexmikli OP t1_j5o24qa wrote

Replying to lllldddd01 (#1,461,983)

The first time I read about this, it was "shouting". I figured that "crying" here was translated from some word that meant "crying out" and could mean either shouting or crying.

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alexmikli OP t1_j5o2rg7 wrote

Replying to DontJealousMe (#1,464,121)

Albanian is very likely a remnant of the Illyrian(or perhaps Thracian or Paeonian instead) language, but we lost the connecting branch between the Illyrians before the fall of Rome and the sudden emergence of the Albanians in the 12th century.

Most likely this is just because the Greek and Latin speakers of coastal Illyria didn't have a reason to talk about the highlanders or the records were lost.

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J2humps t1_j5vj4hy wrote

Older than I expected.

>The first attested written mention of the Albanian language was on 14 July 1284 in Ragusa in modern Croatia (Dubrovnik) when a crime witness named Matthew testified: "I heard a voice crying on the mountain in the Albanian language"

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