Talk:Albanian language

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Inherited roots[edit]

The section "Historical presence and location" contrasts native words with borrowed loan words of foreign origin, when the more natural comparison would be native words versus commonly inherited ones, since it is an IE language just like Italic Celtic Germanic etc

Spelling-to-sound: ‹r›[edit]

Shouldn't ‹r› actually be /ɽ/? It does not sound like an alveolar tap, but like a retroflex flap.

Spelling-to-sound: ‹r›[edit]

Shouldn't ‹r› actually be /ɽ/? It does not sound like an alveolar tap, but like a retroflex flap.

Spelling-to-sound <gj> and q[edit]

Shouldn't it be changed to voiced and voiceless palatal affricates respectively?

Albanian stops are unaspirated[edit]

http://mudrac.ffzg.unizg.hr/~rmatasov/Albanian.pdf That means the english examples should be changed. /p/ is not pronounced like in 'pen', but like in 'spin'.

e and o are higher than the table shows, almost same level or higher than ë[edit]

http://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/publications/2003_moosmueller_granser_the_vowels_of_standard_albanian.pdf