Re: Albanian spelling


Jarel Deaton wrote:

incidentally, there was an article on the romanized albanian alphabet
a few years (during the Kosova crisies) ago in Int. J. of Middle
Eastern Studies. Sh. Sami Frasheri (?) who was a designer or advocate
of it had had some linguistoic training (circa end of the 19th cent.).
he is also well known for his Turkish lexicon, still a reference book
for Ottoman Turkish. I quoted him a lot.

> Juuitchan wrote:
> >Why the silent "q" in "shqip"?
>
> It isn't. It Shqip is [Scip]
>
> >2a) What is the real difference between the sound of "gj" and the sound
> of "xh"..."q" and "禱uot;?
>
> "gj" is a voiced palatal stop
> "xh" is a a voiced postalveolar affricate (as in English "jam")
> "q" is a voiceless palatal stop
> "禱uot; is a voiceless postalveolar affricate (as in English "choose")
>
> >3) I have heard that the Albanian language has no word meaning "spell"
> (as in "to spell a word").
>
> My dictionary has "shkruaj" for "spell"

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