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At present, this page follows Orel's paradigm for periods of Proto-Albanian, and presents the relationship between the synchronic phonologies of both "EPA" and "LPA" with diachronic relationships to each other and to ancestral Indo-European forms as well as descendant Albanian forms. Stress
- c. 1000 BCE – 600 CE
- Proto-Indo-European
- Balkan Peninsula
Since the main phonological distinction between Tosk and Geg, viz. rhotacism of n, is found in only a few Slavic loanwords in Tosk (Ylli 1997: 317; Svane 1992: 292 f.), I assume that Proto-Albanian predated the influx of most of the Slavic loanwords.
- Michiel de Vaan
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At present, this page follows Orel's paradigm for periods of Proto-Albanian, and presents the relationship between the synchronic phonologies of both "EPA" and "LPA" with diachronic relationships to each other and to ancestral Indo-European forms as well as descendant Albanian forms.
From the book Volume 3 Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. 95. The phonology of Albanian was published in Volume 3 Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics on page 1732.
13.2 Evidence for the Albanian Branch . These difficulties notwithstanding, several innovations define Albanian and set it apart from all other branches of IE, including *s > [ɟ] (in IPA, spelled gj in standard Albanian orthography) in initial position before a stressed vowel, cf. gjashtë ‘6’ < *sék̑s-tV-vs. shtatë ‘7’ < *septḿ̥-tV-. gj represents a voiced dorsopalatal stop ...
Keywords. Albanian phonology; morphology; Tosk Albanian; Gheg Albanian; Malsia Madhe Albanian; Old Gheg and Old Tosk; Proto-Albanian; Proto-IndoEuropean; nasal-stop clusters; prefixal en-; homorganic nasal assimilation; apheresis; epenthetic stops; Obligatory Contour Principle; Grassmann’s Law; Rosenthall’s Law 1. Introduction.
Contents 1Nomenclature of periodization of Proto-Albanian 2History of study 3Phonology 3.1Stress 3.2Vowels 3.2.1Diachronic development 3.3Development of Indo-European sonorants 3.4Consonants 4Classification & isoglosses with other branches of Indo-European 5Relation to Modern Alba...
