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This thread has been a hilarious reading. My wife is from kosovo, they will absolutely never be a part of Albania. Even though western-macedonians/albanians, kosovo albanians and "proper" albanians are the same people there are cultural differences e.g. scandinavia. Also no...

If you would guess, which people do you believe are the primary ancestors of the Albanians. Austrian linguists indicated that the albanians might not be illyrian, but that albanians have been roughly in the same area for atleast 3000 years.

Btw, still have no "clear" answer why some albanians between gostivar and Tetove use Ke instead og qka/xhi? Anyone? Is it a loanword or something stuck with them through the times? sentence: eng: What is he saying? Geg: Qka/xhi thot ki? word of question in the sentence: Ke thot ki? It is...

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Coullët is also used in the polog valley. However, being myself from Polog valley, I've never heard the word xhovitë, very interessting. Need to take that up with my old ones :)

Another one :P Brimagë / Brimaga = Spider (we dont use Marimangë)

Another word that is used alot is ma frejk (faster, do it faster) instead of ma shpejt. But its not used for speed. I.e. if we are driving in a car, we'd say "sham huxhum (shum shpejt) (not sure how it spelled only how its pronounced) esht to qu" , while we use frejk when we say for example...

Thing is, Hanxhare isnt used in turkish, their word for machete is -pala-. Also nenamadhe is not used for mother (nanë) but for grandmother, its not that common though. Paja is pronounced straight like Paia as far as I know. about Ke, I dont think they say that as a substitution for kush...

2. We dont care about religion, im Albanian rest doesn't matter.

Also forgot to add, I encountered a funny situation with the word Xhi, on a coincidence. A Persian guy heard me say it, and he told me it means the same and they use it in the same way as we do. How did a Persian word get into our dialect?? (ottomans? But I know the turks dont use this word)

Great answer and Very interesting. Ill elaborate on the Teka part. Thing is when we say ketu as you say, we say Kah. In my village thought Kta is used more(although Kah is also used), while in my mothers villages Kah is used more (they also use Kta). Kah is used more like when we are stressing...

Hi guys! Noticing alot of Albanians in these forums and people with good knowledge on linguistics I'd like some help on the following. Being from a village in the Polog Valley (Village name is Nerasht written about first by Greek/Byzantine travellers as Nerast/Narest in the 1300s). I have...

Excuse me, We are like Tribals? I am from these "Tribals" and Have a BSc and a MSc in Economics and Finance (From two of the top50 schools in the world), I know even more that are even higher educated than me from these "Tribals". But what can you do when most Macedonians are naive and think...

Sorry for Necroing this thread, but couldnt resist, we albanians in Macedonia (Sharr mountains/polog) use Gjep :) (not only a few, but all of us). We also use -Nanë madhe- (not many though) which is translated to greatmother , i.e grandmother.

If you decide to visit scandinavia, use Norwegian.no It's the Norwegian cheap airline. It's possibly the cheapest you get from, to and between cities in Scandinavia. High-speed trains can be used between cities as Berlin, Paris, Geneve, London etc.... But you won't most often have direct...