Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Jul 2019)
OVERVIEW OF A CENTURY’S DEVELOPMENT OF ALBANIAN LINGUISTICS
Abstract
The rapid and qualitative development of the Albanian culture, literature and science on the basis of profound historical economic and social transformations that have been carried out in Albania and which have brought profound changes also in the linguistic awareness of the Albanian people, has given a powerful and uninterrupted boost to the unification of the Albanian national literary language, the foundations of which have been grounded since Renaissance. Following the decisions of the Scientific Consultation meeting held in Pristina in 1968, this unified literary language began to be used almost without exception by Albanians in Kosova (until June 1999), Macedonia and Montenegro, who lived in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It can be considered as a result of the cultural development of the Albanians and of the conscious efforts of the employees of culture, education, and science that this unified language appeared in all social activities, including in various genres of artistic literature, in prose and in poetry. Numerous works prove both the broadness and depth of the acquisition of the national literary norm. This is an important step for expanding the national functions of literary Albanian and for enriching it during the twentieth century. Efforts to use common Albanian literary language are also noted in the Arbresh of Italy. This degree of literary Albanian development has made it possible for the spelling rules to be as uniform and stable as possible for the easy acquisition of written literary language norms, and at the same time have contributed to the further alignment of the norms of correct spelling.
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