Is Albanian a Germanic language?

Is there an ancient connection between the Germanic languages and Albanian that goes beyond the fact that they are Indo-European languages? In other words: did a Albo-Germanic subgroup exist at a certain point in history? I will try to shed some light on this question in this video by looking at possible cognates. Please forgive the clickbait title. This video is highly speculative and should be considered as amateur linguistic freestyling, not as hard science. Enjoy!
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[@Terry-pz1op]

Yes, it's time again for a video about Albanian. Please ignore the clickbait title & watch the video before commenting. Corrections or additional examples are welcome below.

[@alb0zfinest]

Miri (old english for merry) is similar to Albanian mir (good)

[@icantlivewithoutnesquik2032]

I just discovered your channel and Im pleased to telm you that you were the youtuber I was looking for!

[@mkurai5802]

Since you are not a linguist then let me give a lesson. The shortest form of a word indicate it is the oldest version of the word itself. Jap/na/am, same word Do your research

[@mkurai5802]

Ni/nie/një =1

[@mkurai5802]

Espet/speit/shpejt. i was used instead of j

[@pumfeethermodynamics3286]

what people forget is that germanic languages retain alot of basic (although evolved) words from proto-indo-european as far as we know and its just a coincidence that Albanian (which is probably modern Illyrian) has retained alot of them too.

[@sidritkercyku6661]

Also darkë- night/dinner Drejtë-straight Derë-door Jam- i am Kau- bull Valë- welle(german) Stuhi- storm Flama- flame Fluturon- fliegen( german) And also the "V" sound in "vdekja" drops in gheg

[@lekdukaxhini3392]

In northern albanian we say deka

[@Flavio06626]

Drejtë and flama have romance origins, while jam is probably of common Indo-European origin.

[@lela8405]

@@Flavio06626 nuk je drejt,i dritës pra, i drejtësisë,do të na kthesh në errësirë.

[@Flavio06626]

@@lela8405 non penso di aver capito, comunque in italiano diciamo "diritto"

[@Flavio06626]

@@lela8405 ha senz'altro un'origine comune.

[@arbenpjetergjokaj5129]

If you study more the geg (nothern albanian) version of language it preserved the old language more than present . You will find the words change so much as its very old version ,also thank you kindly for your research and shedding light and educating values to many people, salute

[@antoniomonaco5742]

I guess most of these similarities are just a case due to the fact that both languages are part of indoeuropean languages. Yet there are some similarities with Pugliese dialect and albanian, puglia used to be inhabited by messapians that are old albanians.

[@ileanaoanaalecsuc4466]

Albanians emigrated in Puglia, that's true.

[@SrednyStog]

The city of Brindisi is proof.

[@lagjescuni5482]

@@ileanaoanaalecsuc4466 Puglia was inhabited by the ancestors of the Albanians before the Roman invasion of the Italian peninsula. you troll

[@DemetriosKongas]

The latin hora which gives English hour derives from the Greek hora (ωρα). This is from the Proto-Indo-European yer which gives year in English and Jahr in German and ear (εαρ) in ancient Greek meaning Spring.

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

I've often asked myself this very question. There are many Gothic loan words in the Gheg Albanian dialect. Some weren't covered here of course.

[@lagjescuni5482]

how can you say that they are loan words and not words with a common Ido-European origin??

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

@@lagjescuni5482 They maybe of common European origin.

[@arbenkastrioti]

I am Albanian and I speak both Albanian and German, and I can say I was suprised to find out that our languages have in several cases the same logic. For example: in Albanian: Big - Madh Magnify - Zmadhoj In German : Big - Gröss Magnify - Vergrössern

[@garyyakamoto2648]

Also the word: (Alb.) Boge = (Ger/Eng) Bog -- for water body) (Alb.) Sfork = (Ger/Eng) Fork (Alb) Cun = (Eng) Son (Alb.) Gezuar= (Ger) gesundheit (the meaning has changed but is linked to being happy and healthy OMG you beat me to it with the last one :)

[@MAELAET_]

im from norway and has realized some words soumds alike

[@armandemsha1976]

Old Norse Yakules -Akull

[@stelios5877]

​@@armandemsha1976akkulore in albanian mean ice cream becuase albanians are norman franks mixed with berbers from north afrca semetico-germanic language actually like the vandals but albanians wont accept that they are germanic even their dialect is purely ducth 😂

[@katholischetheologiegeschi1319]

Thats why their dna tests all over the internet prove that they are clise to you greeks? Lol

[@yougottarelax]

Honestly before learning about info European language and learning about the each country language , I always thought Albanian is germanic, at least by their accent of words

[@southgakure]

our language used to be categorized as germanic in the indo-european language family before it was researched more in detail, it’s quite interesting as the exact origins of our language still remains a mystery

[@yougottarelax]

Is thst true? Is there any article about it? Or Google?

[@alareiks742]

Honestly see not enough similarities here to classify the Albanian language as the Germanic. Yes, there were definitely connections. Yes, perhaps such two separate branches of IE languages were the one group in the past, but it is obviously that Albanian is not the Germanic language today in any variety. Honestly, it is the same like to claim Latin as the Celtic language, knowing that Celtic and Italic people were very possibly one group in the past.

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

This is a subject I've spend a little time reseaching. The Germanic spoken today is not the same as the eastern Gothic spoken in eastern Europe. Therefore the old Albanian linguistics are more akin to the language spoken by the eastern Goths and even the Vandals of North Africa.

[@Havolli]

Also, i've found another, extremely similar word Kau (bull) ------> cow The prounounciation is the same, and it's the same animal so yeah

[@guidopahlberg9413]

Kau corresponds to Sanskrit: Gaur (the wild Indian and south east Asian buffalo). It is probably a very old word.

[@seyl717]

Interesting, however as for the word ,,Bardh" it is Bright in english not Beard.

[@guidopahlberg9413]

buke - older German: ich buk (Engl. I baked) so buke means 'baked'. However bir is maybe related to Arab. bin (son of)

[@ansibarius4633]

I'm not familiar with the Albanian language, but when looking at the Albanian words for 1-5, which is një, dy, tre, katër and pesë, I see more obvious phonetical similarities with languages like Greek and Latin than with the Germanic group. Latin has unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque (and Greek has pente), whereas Gothic, the oldest attested Germanic language of which substantial portions of text survive, has ains, twai, threis, fidwor, fimf. A similar pattern is visible in modern Germanic languages: one, two, three, four, five; eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf; een, twee, drie, vier, vijf, etc. Major divergences can be seen in the treatment of consonants between Germanic and Albanian, less so between Albanian and Greek / Latin. This is not to say that Albanian would be closely related to those specific languages, but rather that a grouping together with Germanic is extremely implausible, because you would have to assume that many common Germanic sound changes were later reversed in Albanian.

[@ervinxx2545]

Very interesting. U researches are r cool.!

[@leka6141]

Hype - hype ( to lift something up) You - Ju See - Sy (eyes) Crazy - Krisur (something broken)

[@uneti463]

omg crazy and krisur is legit!!

[@manno_ut_nitherlanda]

It's also suspicious that the i's in mirupafshim are pronounced like [ɪ]

[@MilIMeta]

Good theory. Watch on youtube "Prof. John Bassett Trumper - About Albanian Language 1" were albanian is said to share many curse words with germanic and celtic languages.

[@Terry-pz1op]

Thanks. I checked it out and it was very interesting.

[@samsunggalaxytaba3858]

You missed soooo many dutch words its impressive im an albanian living in the netherlands and i was lmao...

[@tonyselmanah7411]

Very interesting video. If you have a little brain you can find a huge number of similarities. I read all the comments on here and some commentators,as I understood, expect the words to be exactly the same to be considered similar or deriving from the same root. How can one expect that ?! There is absolutely no question in my mind that all European languages derived from a single very ancient protoindoeuropean language

[@ervinxx2545]

The only mistake. 3:24 in Albanian Orë - Ora, in English - Hour. Kohë - Koha in Albanian is Time (and the Weather in Dialectic) Here is dialectic and not in singular form , but in completion lexical like.; Herë pas Here - Time after Time, in Albanian official language is.; Kohe, and the Lexical form.; Kohë pas Kohe In singular verb is,; Herët - Early

[@Zapatero078]

How can i learn Albanian

[@martinmato7587]

write to me

[@marjae2767]

I think Latin and Greek could explain a lot of these, and I think Latin hora leads to English hour and presumably Albanian herë. Morphological similarities would be better evidence. For example, the pronoun forms don't seem that similar. Common Germanic ends the 1st person nom sing, 1st person acc sing, and 2nd person acc sing with -k, Albanian does not, although like English, it could have lost these endngs.

[@pumfeethermodynamics3286]

that u sound u talk about appears in turkish tho if im not mistaken

[@ether6107]

Hmmm I think this is just further proof that both of these language families are different branches of the same Indo-European tree. The similar words are too small in number to show a relationship much after Pre-Roman times. If they were in the same branch, words for numbers, body parts, nature, and/or pronouns would be similar enough that you could change a consonant or two and they'd be the same. A good way to confirm this hypothesis would be to check these words in the Baltic languages as these are the most conservative modern languages in relation to PIE.

[@Terry-pz1op]

I do not suggest Albanian and Germanic are in the same branch, but only that they might have been at some point in the pre-classical era, thousands of years ago. In other words, they might have split off from the main IE-group together and remained a continuum for some centuries before spliting up in two (or more) seperate branches, similar to Baltic and Slavic.

[@gigachadgaming6071]

You can't simply just "change a consonant or two", you need to follow (hypothetical) development back to a (theoretical) ancestor. While Germanic and Albanian being from a germanico-albanian branch is out there, it has been noted that Albanian shares plenty of Isoglosses with Germanic languages (with baltoslavic languages too)

[@ether6107]

@@gigachadgaming6071 What I mean is that the way languages evolve away from each other is that the same root word diverges in a slow change in the pronunciation of consonants. The way linguists reconstruct whether a language is part of a family is exactly this way, where one language has a consistent rule of specific consonants changing. For example, English and German share the same direct ancestor, but where we English speakers would have a "p", Germans have an "f", or the English "th" is consistently a "d" sound in German. Linguists have used the same logic to show Sanskrit, and therefore North Indian/Persian languages to also be Indo-European. My examples are a simplification, but it's not far from how proving connection of languages actually work. Finally, Albanian has plenty of loanwords from all of the linguistic families that conquered it's lands (Latin, Greek, Slavic, Turkish, and Italian) However the Germanic tribes did not settle and create kingdoms there, and unlike the other languages, the Germanic "loanwords" presented are few in number. Some don't even share the same meaning just the same pronunciation. This means the similarities are much more likely to be very ancient.

[@Hector-dk8iy]

@@ether6107 the core vocabulary of native albanian have all the basic meanings despite the amount of loans. Some words are mistakenly taken as borrowings. For example there is nothing that indicates that alb. mend (mind) is derived from latin mentem. It could be a cognate as well. Same for the word qen (dog). Phonologically it's not justified from latin canis because of the lack of tosk rotacism that would have been *qer. So "qen" must have an added - nd in protoform but it's difficult to reconstruct *kend ? Comparing the german Hund, I see an albanian/germanic cognate here for the dog. I aggree that albanian shares very little features with germanic. I see more common features with greek and baltic.

[@user-rizzwan]

​@@Hector-dk8iyhunde is nose though

[@Nach956]

Good job. I know german, and blew my mind to find connections when learning about some anatolian languages. Albanian is not anatolian, but still, if deep connections where there, its not unbelievable to me if there's with illirian too.

[@ademhasani430]

germanic and albanian language similarities wouldnt be such a big suprise. afterall, illyrians came in contact with for example the brittanians. funny how i realize it just now, that king brutus of brittania was of illyrian origin. some english words are similar to the albanian language. for example the word dark in english means black but we use darkë which means night/evening/dinner. other words that are similar: drejt = straight. here the spoken word is very similar. others: bridge (english) and brigj in albanian means coast. here is a word play used. the bridge is used to cover the coasts. but brigj in albanian is the word for coast. use a bit of immagination to get the hint here and it makes sense in the end. there are many more similarities with the english language specifically but some others have mentioned some words allready so i dont want to copy the same thing again on my comment here.

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

You need doctor

[@SrednyStog]

Does Alb. “kush” vs Tocharian A “kus” (who) prove Albanian is centum?

[@qerqiztopulli1708]

Nice video.love Dutch people from albania

[@southepirote7676]

Pelasgian "family" lists languages in four groups, of which only Albanian is well-attested» Oxford University Linguistics “The speakers of the Indo-European language that would become Albanian and the speakers of the Indo-European language (Hellenic Albanian) that would become Modern Greek were the first to enter the Illyrian Peninsula whose languages are of relevance for modern Albanian linguistics.”: «Nonetheless, Eric Hamp, who has been the most careful and conservative of specialists on Albanian dealing with this issue, has decided that the evidence linking Albanian to Messapic, which in turn has been linked to Illyrian, is sufficient to see Albanian as a descendant of a language to Illyrian, if not a descendant of Illyrian itself» Eric Hamp was a legendary and renowned Indo-European linguist, as well as specialist of the Albanian language. After 50 years of studying it, he argued that Albanian's affinities to the Messapic language proved that, at the very least, it was part of the same brandy as illyrian John Van Antwerp (1991). University of Michigan, Press. Book: (the illyrians were able to rettest into the mountains at the time of slavic migrations and thereby to retain their identities as albanians» Also «traditionally scholars have seen the illyrians as the proto - albanians». Scholars like the Oxford Professor of History, Noel Malcolm, link the Albanian origin to the ancient area of Epirus. Again, some will probably oppose this explanation solely due to political bias. By Budapest university in hungary: «The albanians are one of the most ancient people of southeast Europe; their ancestors were illyrians... From Linköping university: «order to understand the Albanian language, one must first understand this country’s history. Being one of the oldest peoples in the southeast Europe, Albanians have a formidable history dating back to the time of Alexander the Great but even further back via the history of their ancestors, the Illyrians. Published by H. M. Stationary office in university of California «the albanians, skipetars, epirotes, dardanians are descendants of the ancient illyrians. This book is by university of california as you can see with the «univ calif» ok the Bottom of every page in the book. «While the strong men of Albania, like their ancestors Who lived before agamemnon (a old ancient greece hero!)» page 179 Also «the illyrian tribes, now represented by shkypetar or albanians» page 181. «by constantine A. Chekrezi, A. B. (Harv)» aka by Harvard university (best university in the world), also published in Columbia university as it also says. «It is generally recognized to-day that the albanians are the most ancient race in southeastern europe. All indications point to the fact that They are the descendants of the earliest pelasgians were represented in historical times by the kindred illyrians, macedonians.» in page 3. also «this (albanian) language is particularly interesting as the only surviving representative of the so called illyrian group of languages» in page 5. By University of NORTH Dakota: «the albanians are Among the oldest people of europe. Anciently their country formed a part of the roman provinces of illyria epirus». In page 1 By Colorado state university: «Archaeological excavations in central and northwest Greece have brought to light the cultural and skeletal remains of the ancient Illyrians» also: «the physical activity of the illyrians, ancient albanians...» both of these sentences is in page 1.

[@agronmecaj4060]

Question need to do invers-Is the germanic un albanian origine,from old time of arbans?!...

[@blendorthaqi3186]

The words which aren't Albanian but borrowed: Herë - From Latin Hōra Shtëpi - From Vulgar version of Latin Hospitium Dërgoj - From Latin Dīrigō Gëzuar - From Albanian Gëzoj, from Gaz (joy), from Latin Gaudium The others are Albanian and either share a common root, are a coincidence (for example Shko, sounding like Go, comes from Shtego, from Shteg which means Path), or are not at all related (Ex. Bardh & Beard, Vogël & Fowl, Vogel, and Hundë & Hound).

[@Tuta25Tuta5]

Shtepi esht letrare, dialektore apo popullore esht Shpi,Shpaj dhe ka kuptimin Vrim,apo gje e Shpuar,Shpoj,Shpell,dhe Latinishtja e ka te huazuar nga Shqipja ,po ashtu edhe Greqishtja. nuk ka kuptim etimologjik Hospitium...Gas esht fjal natyre,nje rrokshe,qe vjen nga e qeshura Ga Ga Ga,dhe nuk mund te vij nga nje fjal e stergjat Latine..mos shkruaj gjera qesharake..me par thonin se Kal vjen nga Kabalos,por kur u gjeten monedhat para Latine te shkruara KALOS,atehere u terhoqen shkencetaret Latinist...

[@topeagle6248]

Well said . Vdekje Death we say also Dek . As for go we say shko . For House we also say Hauz We can go on forever almost all words are like that .

[@ianeons9278]

My theory is that Paleo-Balkan and Germanic were once the same language (Paleo-Balkan-Germanic) before splitting off into Paleo-Balkanic and Proto-Germanic respectively. Similar to how Italo-Celtic split into Proto-Italic and Proto-Celtic respectively.

[@cezar211091]

Albanian and lost Balkan languages like Thracian are probably closer to Greek and Armenian and Indo-Iranian languages than to Germanic languages, but they have commonalities because obviously they come from the same root.

[@ianeons9278]

@@cezar211091 True

[@smoothjazz2143]

Im sorry but the relationships you proposed are pretty vague and require us to change the semantics of words quite a lot to make it work, Albanian shares a direct ancestor with greek, one should see the same patterns in modern or ancient greek if this was true

[@arberia8951]

some other words similar to English (Germanic branch): Alb - Meaning in English Nate - Night Dita - Day Dark - Dinner or Night King (djal king) - Well mannered and good looking boy (not related to the status) Mali - Mountain Kaput (this is probably loaned in late times from German) Ajer - Air Fluturoj - Flight Shpat - Sword Blet - Bee Mengjes - Morning

[@uneti463]

“djal king”? 😂😂 me gjith mend e ke?

[@arberia8951]

@@uneti463 pse habitesh? po ka djal king ka edhe goc kinge. nuk e ke degjuar?

[@brainstormer3938]

Nuk mund ta marr aspak seriozisht këtë komentin tënd me "djal king" kur dihet që është e huazuar nga anglishtja. Kjo është një shprehje zhargoni ndërsa ti po e merr atë sikur të jetë ndonjë provë akademike 😂

[@ghenulo]

However, the English words "dinner", "mountain", and "air" aren't Germanic.

[@bletrick3352]

I’m sorry but I don’t see the point of this video. Albanian was thought to be Germanic not because of similar vocabulary but because of similar grammar. You should’ve dwelled on the grammar instead of the vocabulary

[@ilgrandearthas6429]

Things that needs to be known about Albanian is that, it is the reason why Indo-Europian ethymological dictionary were created.. And there is a science branch called as Albanology please keep in mind there is no greekology. The reason why it is like that lies under the reality that Albanian is the only language which prooves theory that all indo-Europian Languages have born simultameously as dialect and have became languages by their own. Albanian act like Celtic from gramatical aspect and that prooves that Celts and İllyrians were from the same roots. Also Albanian language have the tendce to shorten the words like cavalo -> kal or Amicus - - > mik Thats make difficult to track back all cammon words.. İf you goo deeper you will find much more common words. Albanian were spoken in very large region from Germany until todays Caucasia this is the region why you find many Albanian topology(names like Gent etc.. ) within Europe and Asia Minor. On the other hand its the richest language from phonetic aspect with 36 letters..nor Roman neither Hellenic language is so rich from phonetic aspect. So in other words Latin and Hellenic languages are daugthers of İlirian language.

[@erichamilton3373]

Lots of false conclusions here. Drag/tragen are IE realted to "tract" in Latin and other IE languages.

[@timruhani9115]

The Albanian Language has developed on its own but there are many English (Germanic Language) words that have similar meaning in Albanian.

[@user-ic1dw7tg2t]

indo europian connection we dont have english words

[@billbirkett7166]

I think it's possible that Albanian and German might have come from a common proto-clade, but it's doubtful that the abstand of this theoretical clade was significantly closer than the abstand between the Germanic languages and the other proto-clades within PIE. Probably most of the similarities here are coincidences. You could honestly find just as many similarities between Celtic, Greek and Slavic as between Germanic and Albanian. Even Lithuanian uses 'ju' to mean 'you'; you can also compare English 'loaf' with Russian/Slavic 'chleb'.

[@jorham1]

very interesting research to try to solve a very controversial question,the origin of albanian language, that are still unknown. it's very probable that albanian origins are somewhere in the roman empire but not in todays albania,for sure

[@davisvisari2826]

terry you are right but do not care on others who disagree

[@agronhajdari6641]

It may be due to the early and long interaction of Albanian and Germanic people Take a note what Gerhard Herm Says in his book about the Roman Legions that were backbone of the Impery in Europe... " Wann immer das imperium in Not geriet, wurden die Illyrische und Pannonische Legionen gerufen.Ihre angehorigen sprachen ohnehin eine gemeinsame Sprache;PANNONISCH war IllYRISCH und umgekhert"... Gerhard Herm. Balkan / Whenever the empire got into trouble, the Illyrian and Pannonian legions were summoned. Their members spoke a common language anyway; PANNONIAN was ILLYRIAN and vice versa"... Gerhard Herm. Balkan /

[@msinvincible2000]

In northern albanian dialect the word "vdekja" has actually no "v", it's "dekja"

[@yvonne530]

Giuseppe Catapano: "Atlantida which disappeared 12,000 years ago, was the land of the Pelasgians (ancestors of Albanians), who escaped the flood of Atlantis and began new civilizations on all continents, especially in Europe, Africa and small Asia". THOTH spoke Albanian! Thot means "to say" in Albanian Language. Pelasgian means "the Caveman" (Shpellazg). Zeus was a Pelasgian, not a Helen! After Illyad, the Language of Gods was Gheg.(Herodotus) A study recently published in Science Magazine 2023 proves the antiquity of the Albanian language, which is much earlier than the Greek and Armenian languages > 8000 years old. Sanskrit, old Greek, and Latin languages are already dead. The Albanian Language "GHEG Dialect" is still alive! It is the Indo-European language, a proto Indo-European language, in fact. It deciphers the symbols and other languages. References: Bopp, Johan Georg von Hahn, Holger Pedersen, Benloew, Joseph Ritter von Xylander, Stier, Schneider, Rozny, Georgiev, Majami, Robert Elsie, Lambert, Haarmann, Petro Zheji.

[@gentkamberi8533]

Way to many similarities. Also pronunciation is of the same quality . Same such similarities are shared with the Celtic dialects .

[@user-rizzwan]

there's a kavajan word qetë which means cat it sounds like the word for calm qetë

[@ghenulo]

gëzuar being related to German "gesund" really doesn't make much sense, as the German ge- is a prefix and so the unprefixed form of "gesund" is related to English "sound". So, unless Albanian imported the Germanic prefix ge- and uses it in the same quirky way as German, I call coincidence (plus, the Albanian word isn't even similar to its Germanic counterparts).

[@GjekSelca]

I think the proper title is “Germany speaks Albanian”

[@uneti463]

no they dont speak our language!

[@SrednyStog]

What if Albanian is the descendent of one of the old Balkan Indo-Germanic languages, which is unknown to us and is not attested. The linguistic homeland must have been further north/northeast (maybe stretching as far as Poland to Romania) and settled in modern Albania relatively early. The Slavs would have dominated the lowlands and the proto-Albanians, the mountains, maybe practicing seasonal transhumance (i.e. summer and spring in mountains, fall and winter in lowlands) this would have preserved the language to the modern day

[@Hector-dk8iy]

No, the protoalbanians were already in the Balkans because they share isoglosses, ancient loanword and structural features with greek. Albanian shows similarities also with baltoslavic especialy with baltic. So, it's a "bridge" between the greek and baltoslavic branch of Indoeuropean languages.

[@SrednyStog]

@@Hector-dk8iy Well the proto-Albanian homeland could have been northeast Balkans (Romania, Bulgaria) therefore close enough to receive greek influence but not a lot since Albanian and Greek don’t share that many similarities. Also if their homeland was originally further north it would explain the Balto Slavic isoglosses. Also like I said, they would have migrated relatively early. Albanian shares isoglosses with Germanic too. Also there’s Alb. kush (who) vs Tocharian A kus (who) Tocharian is centum and not satem

[@Hector-dk8iy]

@@SrednyStog A deeper look in albanian shows more common features with greek. (albanian - greek Passive Voice innovation in verb endings: alb: -em, -esh, -et / gre: -μαι, -σαι, -ται) plus the layer of ancient loans from doric dialect of greek and some ancient isoglosses like alb. "hurdhër" - gre. skordon (garlic), alb. "huaj" < protoalbanian *ksonja = greek "xenos" (foreigner) etc, indicate closer relations with greeks before the latin influence that is huge. There are also different layers of latin borrowings before the arrival of the slavic people. Considering also the baltic isoglosses, the homeland of Albanians must have been from Western Balkans to Poland. In that area before the slavic invadion people must have spoken "Albanoid" varieties.

[@SrednyStog]

@@Hector-dk8iy could be just shared PIE heritage or pre-IE unknown Balkanic substrate

[@Hector-dk8iy]

@@SrednyStog bear in mind also the perfect albanian - lithuanian isogloss mjekrë < protoalb. *smekra = lith. smakras (chin). As I said before, there is a deep connection of Albanian with greek and baltic, that makes me believe that the protoalbanophones were a "bridge" among greeks & baltoslavs. The folk that cover that area in ancient times were Illyrians & Dacians. We don't know if they spoke dialects of the same language. Some speculate for Illyrian - Dacian continuum in the case of Albanian.

[@relaxingsoundmusic9040]

Quetion should be is germanic an Albanian language cuz Albaninan together with Armanian and greek is the oldest in indeo europian tree

[@Albertbucaj1628]

These analogies in these languages ​​are extremely remarkable. While chair means "Stuhl" in German, the Albanian word "Shtyllë" means pillar and describes also something against which to lean or sit. Or while the word back means "shpina" in Albanian, this word describes the spine in English. There are also a few very similar words that immediately come to mind: Albanian - English - German Lehtë - easy - leicht Le te luajm - let's play - Lasst uns spielen Ne dhom - in the room - im Zimmer Dit - day - Tag Nat - night - Nacht Ora/Or - clock (hour) - Uhr Mua - me - mir Shteg - path - Pfad (from "Steg") Shpreh - Speak - Sprechen Dyer - door - Tür

[@arberia8951]

Dark - means Night or Dinner in Albania - Dark in English

[@uneti463]

but then stol and shkom in Albanian mean stool!

[@shporetidruve5309]

landë-Subject sounds very simiular to Land in german i don’t know tho

[@JURGEART]

There is also the Albanian Shterbë/Shterb which means infertile or when a animal or human cannot give birth, or when the child dies in the womb. Similar to the German Sterben which means To die/Die Also the Albanian Fluturoj (To fly) With the proto Germanic Fleugana modern Fliegen (To fly)

[@ileanaoanaalecsuc4466]

Exists also in Romanian . STERP = NOT FERTIL. Romanian: From german: şnițel , ştecher, ştrudel From turkish: cearşaf(also present in Albanian), cocoş, cizmă, geantă; reference: Otoman Imperium From slavic languages: Polish; oțet, ogor, Bulgarian: uliță, lutițā, bundiță And there are alot... That doesn't mean that our language is Germanic or slavic. Are influences from the one crosed our country, in old times the places where we used to live.

[@cezar211091]

​@@ileanaoanaalecsuc4466both words are from Greek steriphos

[@besnikillyrian8520]

Thousands of years before the north illyrians were neighbouring the south germanic , thats why

[@xman4279]

Stiefel in German which means boots compared to the Albanian word shti fell which means deep sticking!

[@uneti463]

omg now i wonder

[@ashala4183]

U need to get Albanian GEHG words that are more old and not like standard modern words today, and there will be 0 connection then, Albanians also from genetic are older then germanic people, even the Indoeuropian haplogroups that migrated that time in today albanian territories or better say in Balkan are older like R1b/Z-2103 and R1b/ Pf-7562 , maybe that explain why there are some connections but still little.

[@duesen756]

Most of these are either coincidences, or are due to the fact that both groups are Indo-European. I can give you the advice to look up the etymologies. One easy way to do that is either etymological dictionaries or just wiktionary.

[@blackeagle2290]

Sai- sy-ais- eyes Shtang- stand Darke- dark Bir- Birn ( Scottish)

[@jetonkuqi8841]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 amazing

[@kosovaisalbania3720]

No Here means times X not time , time means Kohë ose Koha.

[@AggroMusic]

Fat = luck, chance - eng = faith Leht= easy - norwegian = lett Datë = date Arrij = I arrive Derë = door Kang (geg dialect) = song 🤷‍♂️ idk

[@keno2285]

Kangë is Latin

[@besartatanushi2782]

​@@keno2285No it's not. In Geg Albanian kan stands for to cry.. you know the Albanian burial and funeral tradition of lament. This tradition is thousands of years old, it is older than music and singkng. They cry at the funeral, but it almost sounds like they are singing.. well I read somewhere that that particular tradition was the precursor of singing...Hence in Geg kan- to cry kandoj- to sing kanga - song

[@keno2285]

@@besartatanushi2782 Half of the words on this list are Latin loanwords like half of the Albanian language

[@besartatanushi2782]

@@keno2285 Please explain? You do realise that music and singing originated in the Balkans. Not in Italy. Right? Explain to me how the word for song, singing, to sing was loaned to Albanians by the Italic peoples? When the whole concept of music and singing was invented on the Balkans, with Albanians being aboriginal to the region.

[@keno2285]

@@besartatanushi2782 Haha man you guys are something else

[@lifelessons7401]

No, Albanian is not a Germanic language. Going over all words: ju & ti are of course to be similar to them, so yeah, correct sy is not linked with "sight". It's cognate to english "eye" and latin "oculus". shpreh is, according to the great albanian linguist Eqrem Cabej, a fairly "new" word, and a formation of sh+p(ë)r+eh (to sharpen) Zot is not linked to God, so wrong "jap" with the j at the front is new. Originally, the word was just "ap". It isn't cognate to "give" herë is cognate to hour because of Latin "hora" (not cognate with german and dutch her- though) bukë could hold some truth, but it is often considered a loan (highly unlikely imo) - a secure cognate to "to bake" is "pjek" hundë is wrong vogël is wrong bardh is wrong (bardh is cognate to english "bright") shtëpi is considered a latin loan, so wrong shkoj is wrong, probably a formation of shteg/shtek (shtekoj > shtëkoj > shtkoj > shkoj) dërgoj is a latin loan, so wrong vdekje (vdes) is probably correct njeri is wrong bollëk is a turkish loan, so totally unrelated bir is wrong. "to bear" is cognate with the words (m)bart, mbaj and barrë "shpejt" was originally shpjertë" which comes from "shpie" (to bring/send away). Also "spät" is not cognate to "speed" me is correct gëzuar is from gëzoj, which is a latin loan, so wrong (also, german "gesund" is cognate to english "sound" as in "safe and sound") ndër isn't cognate with them, so wrong "ishte" is not cognate with "is/ist", at least not directly, kinda wrong valle is wrong hap is possibly right (the h at the front is suspicious and makes it doubtful) gjah is unlikely, it comes from "gjuaj" and Bardhyl Demiraj (albanolog) presents a different etymology, possibly wrong shoh is not cognate with "show", but possibly with "to see" ftohtë is wrong lehtë (le/leh, the -të was added later) is probably correct shtyllë is disputable, some consider it a greek loan. however it could be, so possibly correct (with a huge grain of salt)

[@lifelessons7401]

@@8kw7mx9 No it's not of Latin origin, cause stilus would not yield "shtyllë", phonetically speaking. The result would be "shtill". And no, "ndër" is not obviously without a doubt from Latin. Is "për" from Latin, too?? This would have required the word to be stressed at the E not the I. Latin influence? Probably. But straight up loan shouldn't be the first guess.

[@lifelessons7401]

@@8kw7mx9 Proto-Albanian had a fixed stress, meaning it didn‘t fluctuate within the word as in Proto-Indoeuropean. So when a word gets loaned, a stress is put on a specific vowel. If the stress was put on the i (if it came from Latin „inter“) then you wouldn‘t get „ndër“. Again, Latin influence is very likely and plausible, but it being a loan can‘t be proven as it could very well be derived from IE, like every other short, one-syllable preposition (më, mbi, për, nën, në etc)

[@Hector-dk8iy]

"dërgoj" (send) may be linked with "djerg / dergj" (lie down). Shoh < protoalb. *sākska < PIE *sekw (to follow). That "h" sound derives from < PIE *sk.

[@teutaabazi3487]

You and your great Eqrem Cabej are wrong. Shpreh in albanian language is very similar with German word schprah

[@aleksanderthana5953]

It’s the opposite, Germanic languages derived from Illyrian dialects. The name Germany itself is Illyrian-Albanian that means “fire”, “hot” (zjarr, zjerm), which comes from the hot mineral waters of Bavaria in Germany. There’s many things for the real linguistics to know and understand if they know perfectly the Albanian language and the dead ancient languages and then to come to conclusions about the place and origine if the indo-europian dialects that later became different languages and spread from British islands to India.

[@bletrick3352]

Mos se na turpërove

[@aleksanderthana5953]

@@bletrick3352 kush je ti qe te zuri turpi?! Ne se ke argemente hidhi ne leter dhe mos na bej moral katundaresh!

[@kastriotelaago7158]

i do respect you but but germanic language is descending from pelagic albanian and there is no indoeuropian language is just pelagic language

[@sokoli3253]

The title should be is German a Albanian language and not the other way around. German language speaks Albanian, like all the Indo-European language since Albanian is the mother language of so-called Indo-European. The only isolate that is older than Greek and Armanian is Albanian. All Latin et German languages contains monosyllabic worlds that are Albanian and can only be explained in Albanian with no external references needed.

[@Meteorul]

Maybe it is because they are Indo-European Languages?

[@Miauzerz]

voicces of the void but in space.

[@agronmecaj4060]

The germanic is an albanian desendent language

[@ahnnezoo8273]

Dritë is light

[@ahnnezoo8273]

In turks they say evet maybe related to vet, They sey süt maybe related to suite? They say ne? ( what) maybe related to ne (them) brother your video sucks the words dont even have the same meaning or dont cone even close. And albanian language is older so they would be related to albanian but this is bulshit.

[@ahnnezoo8273]

You speaking the a in albanian totaly wrong.

[@Cp6cku]

SERBAN SARBAN SARVAN HARVAN ARVAN ARBAN ALBAN ALMAN ARMAN ERMAN GERMAN :)

[@ahnnezoo8273]

Here means time? Kohë means time Hour is orë Here is time like 1 time albanians say nji hërë Dy hërë means two times You write hour in english hour is orë.

[@Hector-dk8iy]

Bro, these are all false etymologies. The only albanian-germanic cognate words of what you provided are alb. ju - you and bardhë (white) - bright. Some may also consider gjah - jagen. One interesting word that might show albanian - germanic relation is alb. "shlligë" (viper) ~ ger. "schleichen" (to crawl). Some linguists relate alb. "dritë" (light) < protoalbanian *drikta with old english "torht" (light, bright) and alb. "degë" (branch of the tree) with english "twig".

[@SrednyStog]

What about alb. shkumë vs ger. Schaum (foam)

[@Hector-dk8iy]

@@SrednyStog It's an old loanword either from gothic or from italian schiuma. The native albanian word is ajkë < older alkë. Albanian shares more isoglosses with greek and baltic branches. So, the protoalbanian urheimat could have been the area from the Balkans towards Eastern Europe.

[@SrednyStog]

@@Hector-dk8iy Goths that invaded the Balkans? Also Italian schiuma was borrowed from Latin which was borrowed from German so in the end it seems to have a Germanic root. Also do shkumë and alkë have different connotations or are dialectal?

[@Hector-dk8iy]

@@SrednyStog ajkë is something more creamy than shkumë (foam). Ajkë is used for the upper layer of the milk. I believe that shkumë is a loanword in albanian and not a albanian - germanic cognate.

[@historywithus7057]

Bruh how has similarities just 5 or 7 words similar

[@erti4531]

Because he is not aryan like us

[@Sfx8411]

"Moter" in Albanian means Sister while in German "Mutter" means Mother.

[@uneti463]

thats the case with Albanian and almost all the other IE languages, interesting how that happened!

[@dalina25]

Truth - Latin - Vereta - alb - Verteta - German Wahrheit .. White - Alb Bardh - English - Bright

[@dalina25]

@Gigi it comes from the same roots .. from bardh became bright white ..

[@illyrian82alban]

We are Illyrian 🇦🇱 The Albanian language has the greatest similarity with the Illyrian language more than any other language 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 but what do the Germans have to do with the Illyrians?!

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

How do you know this?? Do you have any written document from illyrians All archeological places in Albania are from Greeks Illyrians was Bigest zero in humanity as civilization Nothing left to the next generations in order to remember them Or maybe in Albania you think Apollonia Vouthroto Billys Dyrahio Antepatrea Amantia Are from illyrians

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

Albania language.. 😂 😂 Latin alphabet 30 % latin words 20.000 greek words special in high level speaking education I am wondering as you speak English what fruit you eat in Albania that broke your mind

[@keno2285]

@@Johnny-pk3iq90% is loanwords

[@user-ic1dw7tg2t]

@@Johnny-pk3iq 7000 turkish loan words in greek greeko turk

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

@@user-ic1dw7tg2t 7000 not.. Are less 500. Bu Turkish have Greek words as in all languages all over the world.. Special in high level speaking education.

[@ArtAlbanian]

Herë=keer(holland)

[@ivanakurc]

This is for laughing, everything is lie

[@gentjanhasani5955]

Shqipja (albanian) is the trunk of the ndoeuropian language.

[@beratmaliqi5445]

TRUNk …… Trun is BRAIN in albanian for Trunk we use TRUNG….. ou wow Albanian is for real an interesting language , proud to speak it

[@fabriziodenuccio1399]

👏👏👏👍🇦🇱

[@limhalimi7977]

Oldest

[@alitopdemir722]

But isn't Albanian closer to Romance languages all in all?

[@southgakure]

yep, our language has a significant amount of vulgar latin loanwords, it might not sound like it, but on closer examination you will realize that it is heavily albanised latin

[@alitopdemir722]

@@southgakure this is exactly the comment I was looking for. Thank you for the answer

[@brainstormer3938]

​@@southgakureAlbanian is heavily Latinized, and it's not the other way around as you've stated for this particular case.

[@southepirote7676]

@@southgakure Pelasgian "family" lists languages in four groups, of which only Albanian is well-attested» Oxford University Linguistics “The speakers of the Indo-European language that would become Albanian and the speakers of the Indo-European language (Hellenic Albanian) that would become Modern Greek were the first to enter the Illyrian Peninsula whose languages are of relevance for modern Albanian linguistics.”: «Nonetheless, Eric Hamp, who has been the most careful and conservative of specialists on Albanian dealing with this issue, has decided that the evidence linking Albanian to Messapic, which in turn has been linked to Illyrian, is sufficient to see Albanian as a descendant of a language to Illyrian, if not a descendant of Illyrian itself» Eric Hamp was a legendary and renowned Indo-European linguist, as well as specialist of the Albanian language. After 50 years of studying it, he argued that Albanian's affinities to the Messapic language proved that, at the very least, it was part of the same brandy as illyrian John Van Antwerp (1991). University of Michigan, Press. Book: (the illyrians were able to rettest into the mountains at the time of slavic migrations and thereby to retain their identities as albanians» Also «traditionally scholars have seen the illyrians as the proto - albanians». Scholars like the Oxford Professor of History, Noel Malcolm, link the Albanian origin to the ancient area of Epirus. Again, some will probably oppose this explanation solely due to political bias. By Budapest university in hungary: «The albanians are one of the most ancient people of southeast Europe; their ancestors were illyrians... From Linköping university: «order to understand the Albanian language, one must first understand this country’s history. Being one of the oldest peoples in the southeast Europe, Albanians have a formidable history dating back to the time of Alexander the Great but even further back via the history of their ancestors, the Illyrians. Published by H. M. Stationary office in university of California «the albanians, skipetars, epirotes, dardanians are descendants of the ancient illyrians. This book is by university of california as you can see with the «univ calif» ok the Bottom of every page in the book. «While the strong men of Albania, like their ancestors Who lived before agamemnon (a old ancient greece hero!)» page 179 Also «the illyrian tribes, now represented by shkypetar or albanians» page 181. «by constantine A. Chekrezi, A. B. (Harv)» aka by Harvard university (best university in the world), also published in Columbia university as it also says. «It is generally recognized to-day that the albanians are the most ancient race in southeastern europe. All indications point to the fact that They are the descendants of the earliest pelasgians were represented in historical times by the kindred illyrians, macedonians.» in page 3. also «this (albanian) language is particularly interesting as the only surviving representative of the so called illyrian group of languages» in page 5. By University of NORTH Dakota: «the albanians are Among the oldest people of europe. Anciently their country formed a part of the roman provinces of illyria epirus». In page 1 By Colorado state university: «Archaeological excavations in central and northwest Greece have brought to light the cultural and skeletal remains of the ancient Illyrians» also: «the physical activity of the illyrians, ancient albanians...» both of these sentences is in page 1.

[@abc-00000]

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[@erti4531]

That’s why Hitler consider us pure Aryans and love us 🤔

[@mariakappes3611]

Ha ha ha. Hitler hat allseine jüdischen Offiziere & Generäle als ARISCHE ABSTAMMUNG deklarieren lassen.

[@francheeze-]

Not Italians tho

[@muriloilharodrigues4724]

💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@asanaziri5168]

No man , it's because the word Arian is translated only with Albanian language .

[@bryan080607]

😂

[@MrAldi31]

Albanian language is the oldest indoeuropean language at 7500 years old. Older than greek and Armenian and actually mother of indoeuropean languages. The Albanian language needs to be studied as many ancient scripts can be translated from the Albanian Gheg dialect which is actually the Albanian language itself not a dialect of Albanian language

[@ileanaoanaalecsuc4466]

History has something to say. Austriac Imperium brought everything down in the area. Made us fighting each there. Or the Greek with their lies. I believe you have to take more aspects into consideration when you make the comparison. Albanian can't be Germanic.Otherwise, I really appreciate your work.

[@giorgosstamatopoulos8115]

What lies bro ?

[@dmbesa]

No, albanian it is unical language

[@aiurea1]

Albanain is a Dacian language

[@southepirote7676]

😂😂😂😂

[@mrjulianbala]

If Albania and Germany would take each other's place in financial power context, the question might have been: "Is German an Albanic language?" and according to the old Albanian civilisation, which is much older than Roman Empire, the inverse question looks more correct. 😎

[@JHenryEden]

"oh, you are italian, i love romanesque languages!" "oh, you are dutch? i love germanic languages!" "oh, you are albanian."

[@chrs87]

30% of Albanian language is illirian ancient Greek

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

Illirian is ancient Greek??? Are any documents from illyrians?? Are any archeological places from illyrians???

[@chrs87]

@Johnny I speak both languages. And I've studied many words that have the same root with ancient Greeks. Plus Illirians was using the Greek alphabet because they were close nations.

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

@@chrs87 but there is mot written documents from illyrians.. Only some. Coins in Billys.. In greek letter..

[@chrs87]

@Johnny And the reason is because the language was not a written one. But because they were so close with Greeks they used there alphabet on there coins.

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

@@chrs87 illyrians was up fro today skodra.. All Montenegro all Croatia.. Greek not be there.. Sorry..

[@FamMitrevski]

It comes from Latin wich later became Arbaresh and all the other dialects in the region, there is no such term as Albanians, they are Romans, not Illyrians.

[@henri_mita]

Totaly wrong approach, totally wrong

[@Terry-pz1op]

lol, care to explain why or nah?

[@leka6141]

Albo Hater no problem we got you 🇦🇱

[@Art-fp1fx]

There are many wrong approaches. You call suffix to a prefix and preposition to an initial consonant. This to me clearly states that you don't have the linguistic background to initiate any discussion about this topic. Also, I, a Spanish speaker, have seen so many similarities with my native tongue that with the same wrong approach I could state Albanian is a romance language. However, examples are very interesting and supports the theory that is an Indoeuropean language of its own branch, since it has a lot of similarities with different Indoeuropean languages but no dominant link to any of them 😊

[@southepirote7676]

Another example of what anti Albanian sentiment teaches most of the Balkans 😂