Old) Albanian Living legacy of a dead language (?)

[sorin1918]

Eng. pursue comes from lat.persequor(to follow), through a french borrowing.

The complete history is available on wiktionary.

IE*sekʷ- (“to follow”)

[avdylagalliu]

good and interesting work, keep it up !!!

[14javierhernandez]

o patriot je njish ,vazhd keshtu po na le pa fjale te gjihteve !!!!! tamam nje profesionist i vertete !

[l0v3ly0c3an]

Great video !! 5 Stars !!! thank for the upload and the great work, keep these videos comming.

[MrVendetta003]

yo man why the hell are using fucking irish music with an albanian video?

[MrVendetta003]

ALBANIAN the oldest fucking language in Europe. Fucking Old Greek Originated from Albanian, Fucking Latin originated from Albanian, fucking Itialian, French, Spanish, fucking vampire slavic, romanian, armenian bulgarian. Fuck all of ya!

[BlizzardRoach]

DUDE UR ONE OF THE GUYS WHO CAN TELL THE TRUTH TO ALL THE WORLD!!!!

[nobody6893]

Une flas po aq mire shqip dhe greqisht(moderne).Qe i vogel(10-11vjec)mu dha rasti te vizitoj butrintin dhe muzeun kombetar ne tirane.Me habi constatova se mund te lexoja pa mundim mbishkrime antike ne greqishten e vjeter.Sigurisht nuk me ndihmoi shqipja per te kuptuar greqishten antike.Teoria indo-evropiane bazohet vetem ne te dhena gjuhesore prandaj eshte mjeti me i zakonshem per manipulime fantastike nacionaliste te historise.gjermanet e krijuan kete shkolle dhe gjakosen evropen 2 here

[imshadi]

It's hard to compare Albanian to English, because English is very modern (has had a lot of recent influences, especially from french), but there are cases, usually when the english word derives from Romance languages (like french / italian / spanish / romanian / portuguese). I think it is better to compare Albanian with these because put together they make it simpler to remove the more recent constructions and to try to extract original forms. But reconstructing PIE is surely impossible.

[imshadi]

I find it weird that linguists still believe in a monosyllabic protolanguage. The more ancient a language is the more complex it's sound and it's grammar. It is a sign of the modernity of current languages that they are slipping into less syllables, simpler syntax and more compact grammatical structures. I believe there are already studies that have found that newly formed languages acquire complexity quite easily. It takes a lot more time for languages to distill some of that complexity.

[dardanoilir]

this is simply a good work , congrats, albanians know what their language and culture contains or its "background"! but unfortunately till now albanians had to deal with "just serviving" and had no time to study even though wanting to, i guess its time for this nation to draw its jewels! cheers

[1iiilirian]

T'lumt për videon!

Scala I

Ligierata IV

Si e criioi zotine ADAMNE et EVENE.

te parete tane PRINT.

[scenderbeg1]

BRAVO VLLA

[albblessed]

Another Albanian unique word, TRUP.., trup =body ,from below the neck and down.without brain (head).Amerikan troops =Amerikan soldiers ..Soldier = troop ..A troop don't have to think or use his brain but just to follow his orders.He his a troop.

[sorin1918]

It's not soo unique,romanian has the same cases,although I never made the conectiones between lack of mind capabilities and american troops :)

[albblessed]

@sorin1918 That's just a case ,don't get excited,surly albanian language is one of the oldest language in europe,peace

[glaukias]

this is what I call scientific approved. Thanks a lot for these facts.

[chessplayer100]

OLD Albania is Illyrian, one more answer!! what language was old Illyrian?? it was Pellasgian, get it, we are the living fact today,we speak a language which is in common with no language out there, a unique language in Europe is only spoken by Albanians and that is Albanian! salut

[althganur]

very interesting and astonishing at the same time.

2bilderberg would you please make a video about albanian literature just to make more interested in the language because if there are materials to read in it that would be amazing

[SimonTrader]

Your videos are enlighting me.

Nobody could grasp how your knowledge skills are useful to understand massive linguistic phenomena too much (and too long) underestimated by most of the academics and scholars!

Thanks.

[NikVlora]

Beni mir qe shkruani ne anglisht,keshtu lexojne te gjithe.Shume interesante.Flm