What does the Albanian language sound like to you?

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Barbak86@reddit

Here is another example of Albanian, where we don't FCK up the "R" sound. This is literary (Standard) Albanian used in Kosovo.

https://youtu.be/tXgHByPT9os?is=TR4qWvCAKVFWJDnl

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icancount192@reddit

Wow that sounds much more like Romanian or Portuguese for some reason that the Albanians I've heard in Greece

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Since there are some Albanians from Albania insisting we are wrong, here is some news from Albania when the villagers of Central Albania didn't have the influence they have now with that Rhotic R that sounds American.

https://youtu.be/FYTniMFIHYo?is=SmQfwsFipcCy4EPY

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Holiday_Pumpkin1279@reddit

Ca halli ke ti o vlla se si e perdorim r dhe rr ne?

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Barbak86@reddit

Asnjë. E përdor edhe gjysa e familjes sime. Por nuk është se të gjithë ne flasim "si Amerikan". Lexo komentet, dhe e sheh që për shumë, R-ja amerikane është një prej karakteristikave që e vërejnë.

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Firm_Bowler228@reddit

Don’t be insecure. There’s nothing wrong with us not rolling our Rs. We have never done it, all the words with rr are latin influence, like rruga(street).

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Holiday_Pumpkin1279@reddit

Po edhe R qe perdorin Amerikanet eshte pak ndryshe nga e jona, po gjithsesi nuk po futemi asaj teme. Nuk do te nderrojne theksin 3 milion Shqiptar vetem sepse nuk i pelqen se si i them R-se neve nje serbi ne r/Askbalkans. Le te thone ca te duan ate avaz kane gjithmone.

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Barbak86@reddit

Shikoj edhe komentet tjera. Mënyra se si R dhe Rr është përdorë në Shqipëri ka ndryshuar me Kohë. Unë as nuk i isha futë lakrave po mos t'kishin komentu dy rrota kari që ne në Kosovë e paskemi gabim dhe e dokumentova që edhe në Shqipëri deri vitet 90', R-ja shqiptohej ndryshe në media zyrtare (ashtu si në Kosovë).

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Holiday_Pumpkin1279@reddit

Kjo sepse ishte e imponuar nga regjimi komunist, ose me sakte nga Enveri qe te gjithe te flisnin si me theks Gjirokastriti. Te njejten gje edhe me Ramiz Aline qe ishte Shkodran apo Nexhmijen qe ishte nga Dibra. Nuk eshte rastesi qe gati te gjithe spikerat e TVSH para viteve 90 ishin ose Lab ose nga disa zona tjera te jugut qe pergjithesisht perdorin vetem RR-ne. Nuk eshte se e kane gjete R duke mbire nga bari pas 90es apo duke e sjellur lejleku, R ka qene perdorur prej shekujsh nga shumica e Shqiptareve.

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Barbak86@reddit

Plako R dhe Rr i përdorim edhe ne, po ndryshe. Ara dhe Arra shqiptohen ndryshe. Tash unë jam i fundit që mundem me gjyku dikënd se a duhet lënë akcentet e dialektit të ndikojnë apo jo. Unë gjithsesi kam akcent të fortë verior kur e flas gjuhën standarde, sidomos në zanore, duke i shqiptuar si të thella.

Ideja është që si "gabimet" e mija në gjuhën standarde, pra zanoret e thella, ndonjë gj/xh apo q/ç që nuk definohet mirë edhe pse mundohem, edhe kjo çështja e "r/rr" që tashmë është normalizuar tek ju, është gabim në kontekstin e gjuhës Standarde, sepse fonologjia Shqiptare, ashtu siç është definuar në Kongresin e gjuhës në vitet 70', tingujt r dhe rr i definon ashtu si të Enverit, gjegjësisht ashtu siç edhe përdoren në Kosovë (përveç Gjakovës). A ishte e drejtë apo jo, është çështje që mundemi me e diskutu (ja edhe unë e përdora paskajoren që standardi e ka zhdukë).

Dmth po klikove te R-ja dhe Rr-ja , ashtu se si definohen sipas Alfabetit Fonetik , aty mund ta dëgjosh mirë . Dmth R-ja jonë, siç është definuar në vitet 70, është e lehtë me një prekje të vogël me majë të gjuhës në qiellëz, përpara tek rrënja e dhëmbëve. Ndërsa Rr-ja është si ajo e spanjishtes që bëhet duke e prekë me gjuhë mesin e qiellzës, aty ku fryhet qiellëza nga pjesa e thellë prapa.

Unë ashtu kështu jam dashamirë i akcenteve dhe variacionit në gjuhë, por kur flasim për standard gjuhësor, pra gjuhën e lajmeve, atëherë e theksoj që R-ja e zakonshme nëpër mediat e Shqipërisë, nuk është R standarde.

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Holiday_Pumpkin1279@reddit

Gjithsesi mendimi yt eshte. Edhe pse ti e quan si nje dialekt katunaresh per mua R duhet te jete aty ku eshte, sepse aty ka qene, dhe e ben Shqipen gjuhe me vecante dhe me te bukur sesa te perdoresh R e sllaveve qe kur e degjon duket sikur i kan fut ndonje top pingpongu ne ezofag dhe po japin shpirt.

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Barbak86@reddit

It's the same language as the link of the news that the OP posted, just a different pronunciation. I chose the news since it's not daily speech (dialect), but standard Albanian.

In Kosovo we have a "standard" R and RR sound.

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icancount192@reddit

It's the same language as the link of the news that the OP posted, just a different pronunciation

Yeah I got it that's why I was surprised, this girl speaks much differently

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ResearchConfident816@reddit

What you're showing is a tv moderator actually mispronouncing the words. She's using rr instead of r. That's not standard Albanian used in Kosovo. That's an attempt at using standard Albanian in Kosovo, and failing miserably. We have two different letters RR and R. Some in Kosovo, north Macedonia and south Albania can't use them correctly. Everyone else uses them as intended.

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Barbak86@reddit

And just in case you think the Central Albanian rolled "R" is the official one, here is a link to our Alphabet . As you can see, we are supposed to have the "r" as it is represented in the link

https://youtu.be/J0IYx-WGebg?is=iK0vXJCHjTkZLlCL

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ResearchConfident816@reddit

You can literally hear the dude in the first link that you said pronounce r and rr perfectly? Which completely goes against the moderator one you just sent.

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Barbak86@reddit

You are wrong. The r sound you think is proper, the one that you use, doesn't use the tip of the tongue touching the area where the upper teeth and the palate meet, like the link I posted. You use what people hear as an "American" R, which is not what our official alphabet uses.

The girl clearly uses R sounds and one Rr sound, which I can hear easily, you are just deaf to it, using the wrong R.

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ResearchConfident816@reddit

Our official alphebet, like the one you just sent me, pronounces them correctly. You can literally go checking in the first link you showed me. You're using an r that's pronounced differently in other countries to make a point for yourself. If you don't know your own alphabet don't go around spreading misinformation.

Our R Is definitely the same as the americans where the tip of our tongue goes backwards and upards in the middle or back of our throats. The word "run" in English can be used to understand how R works I'm Albanian.

In the letter Rr our tounge goes low, backwards while being at the front of our mouth. A word to describe correctly how we say the letter R would be "Burro" from Spanish.

What you think is the correct order and what the moderator is using is an attempt at trying to be similar to other latin languages where R is pronounced as Rr and Rr doesn't exist.

Learn your Lang first, then become a self proclaimed teacher.

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Barbak86@reddit

Listen to this, Albanian news from ALBANIA from the 80'

https://youtu.be/FYTniMFIHYo?is=ySJjSQ0ihZB3mB9X

Not one Central Albanian Rhotic R to be heard.

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ResearchConfident816@reddit

No my forefathers are the ones that confuse q/ç and gj/xh. Not those that confuse r/rr. It's funny how you keep bringing up these moderators who speak with am accent to make a point.

You can search up any video of our alphabet being pronounced and I already sent you one, yet you want to be right so bad.

https://youtu.be/sCe6kUIfi-w?si=9N1FPN6qmIdc7XwI

This is the right way of pronouncing all of the letters. Notice how she's not speaking in any dialect mor does she have an accent. That's just standard Albanian. Whether you like it or not, doesn't matter. Keep lying to yourself all you want just don't lie to others.

And what's this central Albanian R all about? Have you ever even been to Albania? Have you ever heard them speak? From gramsh to Tropoje you'll find ppl using the central Albanian R sound that you speak of, so why are you so fixated on calling it central Albanian r when it's genuinely wrong? It's definitely because you still think standard Albanian is based on central Albanian. Well it's not, central Albanian is like 85% ghegh and the standard Albanian is clearly not the same.

That's it for me. Not gone keep discussing with someone who clearly doesn't even know thibgs about his own language. Keep lying to yourself if you want, just don't share those lies as facts with other ppl.

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Barbak86@reddit

I'm talking about the central Albanian R because that's where Tirana is, and where this influence is coming from. I'm well aware that from Gjakova down to Gramsh people say the R that way, my family comes from Gjakovë and my Grandmother and Grandfather said it that way.

But anyway, as I expected, the people back in the 80' were speaking wrong, and now it's correct...

https://youtube.com/shorts/VWVt7kpStLI?is=MJFOrSNUdOOO2_Sa

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ResearchConfident816@reddit

Yes my friend, go hear some people use accents make a whole agenda about it.

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Barbak86@reddit

During the mid 90' you can hear a mixed way of speaking. The newscaster pronounces the "r" the way we in Kosovo continue doing, but during the reports where other people speak, some speak the way you guys talk today. So there was clearly a shift that happened over there, but you don't seem to be aware. I guess you were born into the "new" way of pronouncing the r. https://youtu.be/O6_nX6RwxnQ?is=in0nLrpZY4CLyrLw

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Barbak86@reddit

During the mid 90' you can hear a mixed way of speaking. The newscaster pronounces the "r" the way we in Kosovo continue doing, but during the reports where other people speak, some speak the way you guys talk today. So there was clearly a shift that happened over there, but you don't seem to be aware. I guess you were born into the "new" way of pronouncing the r. https://youtu.be/O6_nX6RwxnQ?is=in0nLrpZY4CLyrLw

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Barbak86@reddit

You are not just deaf, but blind too. Go and read the god damn Albanian Phonology, look at the kind of R we have, click on it, go and listen. We don't have the retarded American R. It's not phonologically the same, it's written in a different way.

Listen to God damn Enver Hoxha, we tailored our language to him so he doesn't sound funny.

https://youtu.be/MXKaoYnBwvE?is=P5Id_U8e3V-VfNPM

Not even one American/Central Albanian R.

The female TV speaker uses one RR and a lot of R-s. You are completely deaf.

Just because the capital of the Republic of Albania happens to be in Central Albania, and people use that kind of dialect to pronounce the Standard Language, it doesn't make it right.

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ResearchConfident816@reddit

Ahh I see what's going on. You actually talk without knowing anything at all huh?

Let's take it step by step so even an 5yo such as you could understand.

First things first, do you understand what a standard language is? It's the main language/dialect spkone in a country/region. The standardized language is used officially so many people who speaksl different dialects can understand each other better.

Now let's talk about this assumption that we use the central Albanian dialectal language? Are you for real? Have you ever heard anyone from Tirana, elbasan, Librazhd, durres, kavaje etc speak in their dialect? You literally wouldn't and them. You thinking their dialect is the same as the standard language is what baffles me. Like how can someone be so Stupid, yet try to look so smart? From middle of elbasan to lac, everyone speaks a form of central gheg dialect. They might have some different words abd tones, but yts roughly the same hece it's included as one areal dialect.

Now where does this assumption that such dialects are used in our standard language? When you hear ppl from Tirana speaking in what you think is their dialect, its actually the standard Albanian language. Go listen to ppl in the villages and you'll immediately notice the difference.

As for the video of Enver Hoxha- congratulations, you just discovered dialects. Hats off to you. Did you buy read I how I said many people in many areas in Albania can't differentiate different letters because of their dialects? In the north is very easy to get confused about ç/q gj/xh. In the south is very easy to confuse dh/ll rr/r. The rr/r is a very particular one as in two ppl can be born in the same family and still use rr many times for r abd vice versa.

"We tailored our language language so he doesn't sound funny" it's true, we did tailor our language as every nation does, as I already told you why- to have a dialect to unite us all and make us understand each other better.

It's funny how you say we tailored our language to suit him though when Enver himself keeps using the R letter wrong multiple times in the same video you linked.

Ofc it's not exactly the same as the English R. They're not spelled exactly the same way. "AR" would be the exact spelling of the english R in Albanian language so yea it just shows English isn't nowhere near phontic. However the sound it makes, not the spelling but when pronounced in a sentence is the same. I already gave you the example with the word "run".

The female tv speaker mispronounced the letter R all of the time. You can hear when she's using rr though she's stressing her cords more for it. Is it a dialectal thing? It can be. It is speech impediments? It can be. Is it standard Albanian language? It's not.

And the cream of the crop is that you're being willingly stupid, as shown in the last sentence. So you do acknowledge that the standard Albanian is that way, which is completely different from how the moderator in Kosovo is pronouncing the words, yet you still go one a post and talk about how her version is the not botched up attempt at it, while literally knowing you're showing dialect and not standard Albanian, but still claiming it as the standard Albanian? Yep, stupidity materialized.

It sounds more like actually just don't want to accept what's standard Albanian rather than not knowing. Whether you like it or not, is up to you. My dialect is nowhere near close to the standard Albanian language and that's ok. Would I have minded, gheg becoming standard? Not at all... but it didn't become it. Live with it and stop spending misinformation. The moment you go to school, no matter where it is, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, north Macedonia. You'll learn standard Albanian language in school and that's how it should be. The problem is in the territories outside of Albania the teachers themselves are so incompetent that they don't know how to write and read in proper way, thus leading to your writing and pronunciation being completely off when wanting to read and write in standard.

If you want to talk in your dialect, even officially, that's ok. It's fine really. However, writing at least officially when you have to be formal, has to be in standard. And teaching of course has to been in standard dor both writing and speaking.

https://youtu.be/MpzELf5FwoA?si=mZej5ZI--T-LUbio Here's the alphabet so you can learn it.

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Barbak86@reddit

Oh okay then... I guess your forefathers, the first generation that used the standard language were doing it wrong as well..

https://youtu.be/FYTniMFIHYo?is=ySJjSQ0ihZB3mB9X

Or

And this is how it's done... Saying a proper r only in combination with t and d (drejt, tragjedi)

https://youtube.com/shorts/9AOCNOyBw9o?is=Hoa5kRzWNeU4Uw1Z

I guess you chose this hill to die in, but it's the wrong one. You do you and continue not touching your palate with the tip of your tongue unless the R comes after a D or T sound, and I'll do me and touch the palate with the tip of my tongue the same way the dude in the news of the 80' was doing it.

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Barbak86@reddit

Oh okay then... I guess your forefathers, the first generation that used the standard language were doing it wrong as well..

https://youtu.be/FYTniMFIHYo?is=ySJjSQ0ihZB3mB9X

I guess you chose this hill to die in, but it's the wrong one. You do you, and I'll do me and spell the R and RR correctly.

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Barbak86@reddit

Nope. She uses all the Rs and Rr s as intended. It's Standard Albanian as pronounced in Kosovo, where the rolled "R" doesn't exist except in one town. This is the case in Germany, Austria and Swiss. They all use Standard German, but have slightly different accents.

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Scoreboardvietnam@reddit

R and Rr are different sounds. The speajer here just uses the Rr sound and it is awful to listen to.

Unbearable

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Barbak86@reddit

And just in case you think the Central Albanian rhotic "R" is the official one, here is a link to our Alphabet . As you can see, we are supposed to have the "r" as it is represented in the link

https://youtu.be/J0IYx-WGebg?is=iK0vXJCHjTkZLlCL

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Barbak86@reddit

Nope. You are deaf it seems. There is one Rr sound which is used, the rest is R.

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vm0066@reddit

Can't really describe it, it's nothing like the other balkan languages. i think the albanian accent is very endearing and funny when they're speaking greek tho lol

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bn911@reddit

Just like someone speaking with pingpong ball in their mouth.

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AskBalkans-ModTeam@reddit

Your post/comment was removed for violating Rule 1 of r/AskBalkans "Keep it civil". Depending on the severity of this violation, you may be banned.

If not, try to refrain from using this type of language.

Lively discussion is alright, but personal attacks, insults, hate, chauvinism and/or bigotry towards other users or their input will not be tolerated.

Cheers.

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bn911@reddit

What is problematic here? Nowdays everybody can be an incompetent mod of the declining sub.

But I thought there is still some decency left...

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nomemory@reddit

Like an alien Romanian. When I hear, for example Polish, my brain is not even worth trying decipher anything, but when I hear Albanian, my brain spots some similarities to what it knows and tries to run the Romanian software... without succes.

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veezy53@reddit

Thats some kind like the german en netherlands 🤣🤣

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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

We say the same for Romanian

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Think_Presence2175@reddit

Like that song, Bonbon

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Ujemegaz@reddit

Kot ben sikur s'don, ti don don

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sara69x@reddit

Bon bon, bet you wanna taste it

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almostcummin@reddit

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prodigioustimekiller@reddit

I don't know what the others are saying Albanian sounds nothing like Slavic languages. It is like something on its own like a tongue knot. You can't even discern words if you have no knowledge of the language. While any Slavic language seems similar to each other, and you can get some easy words even on hillbilly accents. I think it is easier to find out someone is speaking Albanian just by listening what he/she says rather than finding if a Slavic language speaker speaks Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian etc. And you can also figure out Albanians that have Greek as second language when they talk, while Slavic speakers are still kind of difficult what their mother language can be from the accent they have in Greek.

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TinyAsianMachine@reddit

I could still always recognise a lot of the common PIE words just like any other IE language. Armenian was mu h harder for me or Lithuanian.

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icancount192@reddit

Sounds like nothing else, maybe some Slavic sounds like sh or zh, and maybe a couple of Turkish sounding letters like ç or ë but to me Albanian sounds very distinct.

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Additional-Gur7915@reddit

Ç and ë are nor turkish either... ë sounds more like french to me. It comes from Italian and Greek, though... Northerners don't use ë as much..

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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

Sh is not a slavic sound. It is also in germanic brench languages and other languages also

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deckodeckic@reddit

it sounds very random. i noticed the R sound, you spell it like americans

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Tomahawkk___@reddit

Thats not true at all

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deckodeckic@reddit

its subjective, i know what i hear

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Separate_Trust_564@reddit

Like somebody retarded choking

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loco_mixer@reddit

Greek doesnt sound like spanish at all

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floare_salbatica@reddit

It sounds like a very phonetic language, in lack of better words, but the -r makes it sound pretty weird, like they're faking an American accent.

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ClNNAMONROLL@reddit

as a kosovar it sounds weird to me too - it seems to be contained in albanian tosk and related dialects

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Barbak86@reddit

It's the central Albanian R that stretches up to Gjakova. The south uses a normal R, like we do.

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thatsexypotato-@reddit

I swear not all of us use that r in Macedonia we roll it normally…

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Natural_Scholar_1502@reddit

Any song by Ylli Baka will give you an idea of what Albanian sounds like.

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RealShabanella@reddit

Alb from Alb: sexy as fuck, nice tonality, almost like singing. Rap songs in Albanian are total bangers

Alb from KS: I'm sorry guys but it sounds like the village version of the southern dialect

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

Strange, as almost all Rap songs in Albania are either Albanians from KS or Albanians trying to imitate their dialect (which is like strong Gegë dialect).

Maybe you heard some strong Toskë dialect from the south. The tone is strong, and the Toskë tends to pronounce the words completely as it is written.

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Substratas@reddit

Albanians trying to imitate their dialect (which is like strong Gegë dialect).

This is what marked the beginning of Albania’s downfall as a nation.

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

It might not be original, but i don't see it as a downfall. The downfall might be in the fact that most of the song texts are barely understandable and don't tell any story at all.

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7am51N@reddit

Italo-Greek-Turkish-Romanian.

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Sector3_Bucuresti@reddit

For me some sounds are similar to English. It sounds very similar to how someone sounds when they are speaking Romanian with a mock English or American accent.

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pak-ma-ndryshe@reddit

My Romanin gf says the exact same

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cappuccinobiscotti@reddit

Interesting. As a Romanian who grew up in the U.S. Albanian sounds nothing like English to me. However it does vaguely sound like some dialect of Romanian.

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Sector3_Bucuresti@reddit

It's not the words, it's the way they say the R for example.

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MinutePreparation754@reddit

It sounds like a mix of greek and slavic to me

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Fystikovoutiro@reddit

Very distinct, I can tell when someone speaks Albanian even if I don't understand the language. The accent is unique. That said I had many Albanian friends growing up in Greece, so maybe it helps that I'm familiar with how the language sounds I guess.

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evoscheibe@reddit

Def sound slavic. Tho i couldnt differentiate albanian from serbian or any language from that region.

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HumanMan00@reddit

Thats cuz u have little contact with Slavic languages.

Im not saying there isnt some overlap but in general it really isnt that similar.

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Any_Owl_8792@reddit

It is completly different.

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HumanMan00@reddit

Completely is a stretch but im not an academic to trll you ehay iverlap there is.

Still, you do have some similarity with south Slavic i doubt there is much with East or West Slavs.

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Any_Owl_8792@reddit

Brate ja gad njih cujem sve mislum da se zajebavaju i mumlaju bez veze. Bukvalno nikad ni jednu rijec nisam prepoznao.

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HumanMan00@reddit

Za svaki jezik je potrebna izlozenost da bi poceo da ga razumes jer ti treba navika sa vokabularom i fonetikom.

Zato ti sve zvuci kao random sranja.

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Any_Owl_8792@reddit

Једноставно није исто. Албански сам слушао доста у животу и баш је мумлање. Има и других језика које нисам слушао довољно па ухватим неку ријеч. Да, мађарски исто класично мумлање, да не причам кад треба прочитати нешто на истом.

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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

The first time i hear that though

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lupusinlabia@reddit

Engraved imperialism of eternal Ottoman

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evoscheibe@reddit

Its crazy to automatically assume that i support all the things thats done by the ottomans just cuz im turk. Racism is a nasty thing mate.

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lupusinlabia@reddit

Have in mind that this is light and welcoming subreddit, being racist here is hilarious in itself. I am Serb tho

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SnooPoems4127@reddit

Maybe you haven't been exposed to it enough, i took a tour around there, and it definitely doesn't sound slavic at all. It sounds extremely unique and ancient though.

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IMustBust@reddit

Roshkabat shqibiri bibiri apthari jurdaher - that's kind of what it sounds like to my ears

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Substratas@reddit

https://i.redd.it/550udbm3tqng1.gif

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

Dude, that's seems a bit like some hebraic instead of Albanian. And i want to end this here as i don't want to be punished for nothing.

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kimmielicious82@reddit

that but with an English "r" + for me: here and there a word that I do understand.

there was that song "bonbon", which is mixed English and Albanian. when I heard it for the first time, my brain couldn't process that she switched languages and I didn't get why I didn't understand anything. until I realized it's not English.

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reallycooldude456@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣lmao

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Scoreboardvietnam@reddit

🤣

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Ujemegaz@reddit

Being Albanian i can't say much on the topic, but Italian sounds so nice to us. As kids we enjoyed watching cartoons and shows in Italian rather than in German, Turkish or French.

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

That doesn't count as Italian language sounds good worldwide. But i would add that it was easy as f** to learn it from the TV. I think one reason it was easy was also because after the 90s, people were really hungry to learn new things.

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anemonaeae@reddit

I’m not sure how to explain it but there’s a lot of Rrrr and sh sounds

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podivljali_vepar@reddit

Sounds like Maltese, Caucaisan and sometimes like Gaelic

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Maltese sounds like a mix of Romanian and Arabic

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Vault-123@reddit

Nah only the “sh” sounds similar. Otherwise the maltese sounds closer to arabic. First time actually hearing maltese btw, interesting.

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DrawingFrequent554@reddit

Like very distorted italian

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sasvim_nebitan@reddit

To me it sounds very primitive for some reason

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FCjakimoski@reddit

Aggressive.

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Ujemegaz@reddit

Yeah, cursing in Albanian has a separate clause in grammar, go figure.

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kerobob@reddit

Can you link a video of an Albanian guy speaking.

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ScarRedDA@reddit (OP)

Here https://youtu.be/usLABtKtRho?si=y-F5madojwCne22y

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Walther-6969x@reddit

Well…all that I understod in the news clip is ‘ambasada amerikane’ 😉😉.

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RevolutionaryFeed259@reddit

Sounds like Serbo-Croatian in a weird way. It's probably just the intonation. It sounds like I'm supposed to understand it or like sound quality is bad and it'll improve any moment so I'm paying attention to catch what he's saying...

But that woman, wow... That sounds like someone who has stuffed nose is struggling to speak clearly :D And those R sounds that I've never heard of, never thought such sounds existed. There may have been some other sounds that I couldn't decipher in that stuffed nose noise :D He also had that R sound but to my ears he spoke much more clearly than her.

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Scoreboardvietnam@reddit

His accent is heavily influenced by Greek since he seems to live in Greece

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ScarRedDA@reddit (OP)

You've got a point, I'll edit my comment and put news instead.

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kerobob@reddit

It does sound a bit like a Slavic language. At some points it almost feels like i should understand it, but its just gibberish. It sounds like a mix of some Slavic language and maybe Portuguese.

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krisvelde@reddit

It's like someone who has a fetish for pronouncing the letters r and s is trying to give a motivational speech. When I think of Albanian, I hear Çun Lajçi

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Live-Role7096@reddit

Like a mixture of some romance and swedish language

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Chemical-Course1454@reddit

It sounds similar to Roma / Gypsy language. With some different sounds, but the cadence is similar and vowel to consonant ratio

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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

Not similar at all

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MB4050@reddit

As a Venetian, it reminds me of our dialect, because you guys are the only language I’m aware of that shares our “r” sound

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Calabrians have also the same “r”

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Grenagar@reddit

Sounds similar to English for me and same as English have a lot loan words

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smellysmellyhairline@reddit

It sounds kinda albanian

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Panceltic@reddit

Weird, with the English R.

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ab3lla@reddit

American R

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deviendrais@reddit

Visually, I always associate it with wine being poured in a glass (probs autistm).

Phonetically… Can’t pinpoint it. The R’s sound like in Dutch and Turkish sometimes

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stavro24496@reddit

Albanian is like all the languages in the world slept together.

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ScarRedDA@reddit (OP)

It's almost like Albanian is the original world language or something

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Objective_Rise_2115@reddit

Omg dong go this way please

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jesushatedbacon@reddit

Giuseppe Catapano has joined the chat

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CaregiverInternal241@reddit

I think it sounds very beautiful! But what I find even more interesting is how it looks! To me, a Slavic and Germanic speaker, who recognizes a lot of languages based on relations, it looks like somebody just… pressed down on a keyboard. The spelling is also so distinct, I would recognize it immediately I think. Kind of like polish

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ScarRedDA@reddit (OP)

I was looking for a comment about the writing system and it's just like I expected haha. I always assumed a foreigner would read something in Albanian and go "wtf?", let alone the complex grammar system with many irregular words but also with ë and ç involved. I think you're spot on with the Polish comparison when it comes to that.

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CaregiverInternal241@reddit

What I also find interesting is how the Geg dialect sounds. To me it sounds like it phonetically merged with the surrounding languages S/B/K. I saw an interview of dua lipa once in which she spoke Albanian and phonetically, if you gave her a S/B/K sentence I think she could pronounce it perfectly. But I have no comparison/exposure to Tosk Albanian

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