Sounds & Consonants
Albanian has 7 vowels and 29
consonants. Gheg has a set of
nasal vowels which are absent in
Tosk. Another peculiarity is the mid-central vowel "ë"
reduced at the end of the word. The stress is fixed mainly on the
penultimate syllable.
References
Encyclopædia Britannica, edition 15 (1985). Article:
Albanian language
Huld, Martin E. Basic Albanian Etymologies. Columbus, OH: Slavica
Publishers, 1984.
Martin Camaj, Albanian Grammar, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
Orel, Vladimir. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian
Language: Reconstruction of Proto-Albanian. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
