The usage of foreign words and some contemporary borrowings in Albanian Cover Image

Përdorimi i fjalëve të huaja dhe disa huazime të sotme në gjuhën shqipe
The usage of foreign words and some contemporary borrowings in Albanian

Their presence in the pre-university Curriculum of the Republic of Kosovo

Author(s): Ragip Gjoshi
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Lexis, School education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë
Keywords: borrowings; vocabulary; dictionary; Albanian; words; linguistics; lexicography; classification;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we aimed to make a summary of the borrowings that were entered in the Albanian language recently. Therefore, much of the study is about the loans that were entered after the '99 in the official document of the Pre-university Curriculum of the Republic of Kosovo. The push for the selection of this topic has been the daily recording of unnecessary borroëings in education documents approved by MEST and the daily communication in educational institutions. The identification of foreign words is made from official documents of the Pre-university Education Frameëork of the Republic of Kosovo and the core curriculum of pre-university education, from everyday communication in educational institutions as well as from communication in print and electronic media in Kosovo. In this study, we have also observed the development that loan words have experienced over the last two decades, which have created other words, which have not been further developed, and which are entered as new. On the other hand, we have noted the languages of the foreign words that have entered much more, how did the Albanian language react to them, what factors favor the addition of foreign words to Albanian and the ways we can track to minimize new entries and the replacement of existing borrowings, the viewpoints of the linguists towards borrowings, and some fields where the borrowings have entered. We have also compared the borrowings in Albanian language by observing how they were reflected in the dictionaries of 1954, 1980, 2000, and 2006, and we grouped in by giving explanations about the their presence or not in each dictionary.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 37.1
  • Page Range: 261 - 276
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Albanian