Do you have Ike, some statistics about vocabulary?
How many words come from slavic, romanic, hellenic, aso languages?
How many are original or of unknown origin?
"In Meyer’s Etymological dictionary of Albanian, of 5140 “keywords” 1420 are Romance, 540 Slavonic, 1180 Turkish, 840 Modern Greek, and only 400 have a more or less reliable IE etymology. 730 words have no etymology whatsoever. During the past century, I would say that the number of words with IE etymology has risen, while some of Meyer’s Romance etymologies have been rejected, but the number of loan-words in Albanian is still disproportionately high." (
Source)
That would mean:
Romance - 28%
Slavonic - 10%
Turkish - 23%
Greek - 16%
IE - 8 %
unknown - 14 %
Gustav Meyer was XIX century German linguist. Number of Turkish loanwords is high which correlates with period of pinnacle of Turkish influence.
1. Pre-Proto-Albanian (? -1st century B.C.). This is the period before the earliest contacts of Latin and Albanian.
2. Early Proto-Albanian (1st century B.C. -6th century). This is the period of intensive borrowing from Latin into Albanian, before the earliest contacts with the Slavs.
3. (Late) Proto-Albanian (6th century - 15th century). This is the period of intensive contacts of Albanians and Slavs.
4. Early Albanian (15th century - 1800). Roughly, this is the period of the earliest Albanian writings, as well as the period during which most of the Turkish loan-words entered the language.
5. (Modern) Albanian (1800 - present).
Other research summarizes that (
source):
Based on a survey of a large number of international and Albanian linguists, on etymological origin of the word of the Albanian language, we derived the following
approximate statistical conclusion:
(1) over 2000 Albanian word derives from the proto-Indo-European root, according Albanian linguists Bahri Beci;
(2) about 50 words comes from Pre-IE period;
(3) about 40 words comes from Greek, mostly from the Doric dialect, of which certain number preserved the old form which does not exist in the modern Greek language;
(4) about 30 words Illyrian origin, out of 1000 surviving Illyrian words and toponyms;
(5) about 15 words Thracian origin;
(6) about 30 words can be related to the languages Mesops, Veneta and Etruscans;
(7) about 600 words of Latin origin, from which 60 of the old Latin (before IV century), and 82 words can be said to have adopted only the Albanian language and not the other Romance languages;
(8) about 60 words comes from the Old Slavic languages (before the XII century);
(9) that is 540 words on loan from the Slavic languages (Slavonic, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian), how much is included Gustav Meier;
(10) about 840 Modern Greek origin, as far as included Gustav Meier;
(11) there is is 1180 words of Turkish origin, as far as included Gustav Meier;
In a survey conducted during the 60s of the last century, from 1424 words
that are commonly used in the Albanian language, 667 are considered to be indigenous, folk Albanian words, and 757 are among the loanwords. Depending on the topic, varies odds between indigenous and borrowed words.
The local lexicon dominates over loanwords in the following thematic areas:
ambient | 34: 17 | (51) |
atmospheric phenomena | 30: 14 | (44) |
folk astronomy | 9: 4 | (13) |
time (duration), the numbers and names of colors | 50:28 | (78) |
flora | 66: 47 | (113) |
livestock terms | 63: 45 | (108) |
parts of the human body and their functions | 90: 67 | (157) |
The adoptions dominate in the following areas:
wildlife | 70: 75 | (145) |
everyday life | 48: 50 | (98) |
clothing, toilets, food, | 74: 100 | (174) |
housing and household | 43: 115 | (158) |
agricultural terms | 34: 47 | (81) |
crop plants | 6: 40 | (46) |
artisanal terms | 34: 66 | (100) |
sea, sailing and fishing | 12: 22 | (34) |
folk belief | 4: 20 | (24) |
There is no native Albanian name for metals.
Some of Balkan speakers of
Vlach (Aromanian) language claim that many of the words of "alleged" Albanian origin are in fact of Aromanian origin. I have been presented a similarity between some of the words, which indicates a common root, but are those words loans from Vlach> Albanian or the other way around, I can't tell since I'm no expert in that area.