Albanian (endonym: shqipja or gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipe]) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is spoken by the Albanians in the Balkans and by the Albanian diaspora, which is generally concentrated in the Americas, Europe and Oceania. With about 7.5 million speakers, it comprises an independent branch within the Indo-European …

The Accursed Mountains (Albanian: Bjeshkët e Nemuna; Montenegrin: Проклетије, romanized: Prokletije, pronounced [prɔklɛ̌tijɛ]; both translated as "Cursed Mountains"), also known as the Albanian Alps (Albanian: Alpet Shqiptare), are a mountain group in the western part of the Balkans.It is the southernmost subrange of the 1,000-kilometre-long (621 mi) Dinaric Alps …

Arvanitika (/ ˌ ɑːr v ə ˈ n ɪ t ɪ k ə /; Arvanitika: αρbε̰ρίσ̈τ, romanized: arbërisht; Greek: αρβανίτικα, romanized: arvanítika), also known as Arvanitic, is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population group in Greece.Arvanitika is today endangered, as its speakers have been shifting to the use of Greek and most younger members of ...

Romani (/ ˈ r ɒ m ə n i, ˈ r oʊ-/; also Romany, Romanes / ˈ r ɒ m ə n ɪ s /, Roma; Romani: rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities. According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own.The largest of these are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and …

The laryngeal theory is a theory in the historical linguistics of the Indo-European languages positing that: . The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) had a series of phonemes beyond those reconstructable by the comparative method.That is, the theory maintains that there were sounds in Proto-Indo-European that no longer exist in any of the daughter languages, and thus, cannot …

Friulian (/ f r i ˈ uː l i ə n / free-OO-lee-ən) or Friulan (natively furlan or marilenghe; Italian: friulano; Austrian German: Furlanisch; Slovene: furlanščina) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy.Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian.It is sometimes called Eastern ...

Catalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages.Catalan is a relatively synthetic, fusional language.Features include: Use of definite and indefinite articles.; Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and articles are inflected for gender (masculine and feminine) and number (singular and plural).

In linguistics, conjugation (/ ˌ k ɒ n dʒ ʊ ˈ ɡ eɪ ʃ ən /) is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar).For instance, the verb break can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking.While English has a relatively simple conjugation, other languages such as French and ...

Nouns. Old English nouns are grouped by grammatical gender, and inflect based on case and number.. Gender. Old English still had all three genders of Proto-Indo-European: masculine, feminine, and neuter.. Each noun belongs to one of the three genders, while adjectives and determiners take different forms depending on the gender of the noun they describe. The word …

Armenian (classical: հայերէն, reformed: հայերեն, hayeren, [hɑjɛˈɾɛn]) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is the official language of Armenia.Historically spoken in the Armenian Highlands, today Armenian is widely spoken throughout the Armenian diaspora.Armenian is written in its own writing system, the Armenian …