Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

The next most widely spoken languages are Russian ( 1. 3 %), Arabic ( 0. 6 %), Albanian ( 0. 5 %).

Albanian intellectuals meet in Bitola and choose the Latin alphabet as standard script rather than Arabic or Cyrillic.

Liturgical languages used in the Eastern Orthodox Church include ( but are not limited to ): Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Romanian, Georgian, Arabic, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Moldovan, Serbian, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Albanian, Finnish, Swedish, Chinese, Estonian, Korean, Japanese, many African dialects, and many other world languages.

Other languages combined the Arabic word qurbān with local terms for " festival ", as in Kurdish ( Cejna Qurbanê ), Pashto ( Kurbaneyy Akhtar ), Chinese ( 古尔邦节 Gúěrbāng Jié ), Malay and Indonesian ( Hari Raya Korban, Qurbani ), Filipino ( Araw ng Pag-Sasakripisyo ), and Turkish ( Kurban Bayramı ). Azeri ( Qurban Bayramı ), Tatar ( Qorban Bäyräme ), Bosnian ( Kurban bajram ), Albanian ( Bajramin e Kurbanit ), Croatian ( Kurban-bajram ), Serbian ( Курбан бајрам ), Russian ( Курбан-байрам ), ( Eid Kurbani Wari ) in Sindhi.

Its name in other languages includes Arabic and, Albanian, Serbian and,, Bulgarian and, Cypriot Greek: pantopoula, (),, ( Persian influence around the 7th-8th century, meaning regular market, but also special occasion markets, such as Karácsonyi Vásár (" Christmas Market ") and bazár ( Turkish influence around the 16th-17th century, meaning Oriental-style market or shop ), Indonesian and,, and.

A misbaha ( Arabic: مسبحة ), sibha ( Arabic: سبحة ), Tasbeeh ( Urdu ), or tespih ( Albanian, Turkish and Bosnian ) is a string of prayer beads which is traditionally used by Muslims to keep track of counting in tasbih.

For example Bosnian and Albanian texts written in Arabic script during the Ottoman period have been referred to as aljamiado.

Afrikaans ( af ), Akan ( ak ), Albanian ( sq ), Arabic ( ar ), Armenian ( hy ), Assamese ( as ), Asturian ( ast ), Basque ( eu ), Belarusian ( be ), Bengali ( India and Bangladesh ) ( bn ), Bosnian ( bs ), Breton ( br ), Bulgarian ( bg ), Catalan ( ca ), Chinese ( Simplified and Traditional ) ( zh ), Croatian ( hr ), Czech ( cs ), Danish ( da ), Dutch ( nl ), English ( Britain, South Africa, and US ) ( en ), Esperanto ( eo ), Estonian ( et ), Finnish ( fi ), Fula ( ff ), French ( fr ), Frisian ( fy ), Friulian ( fur ) < sup id =" fn_1_back "> 1 </ sup >, Gaelic ( gd ), Galician ( gl ), Georgian ( ka ), German ( de ), Greek ( el ), Gujarati ( gu ), Hebrew ( he ), Hindi ( hi ), Hungarian ( hu ), Icelandic ( is ), Indonesian ( id ), Irish ( ga ), Italian ( it ), Japanese ( ja ), Kannada ( kn ), Kashubian ( csb ), Khmer ( km ), Kazakh ( kk ), Korean ( ko ), Kurdish ( ku ), Latvian ( lv ), Ligurian ( lig ), Lithuanian ( lt ), Luganda ( lg ), Macedonian ( mk ), Maithili ( mai ), Malayalam ( ml ), Marathi ( mr ), Northern Sotho ( nso ), Mongolian ( mn ) < sup id =" fn_2_back "> 2 </ sup >, Norwegian ( Bokmål ) ( no ), Norwegian ( Nynorsk ) ( nn ), Occitan ( oc ), Oriya ( or ), Persian ( fa ), Polish ( pl ), Portuguese ( Brazil and Portugal ) ( pt ), Punjabi ( pa ), Romanian ( ro ), Romansh ( rm ), Russian ( ru ), Serbian ( sr ), Sinhala ( si ), Slovak ( sk ), Slovenian ( sl ), Songhai ( son ), Spanish ( Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain ) ( es ), Swedish ( sv ), Tamil ( ta ), Tamil ( Sri Lanka ) ( ta ), Tatar ( tt ) < sup id =" fn_1_back "> 1 </ sup >, Telugu ( te ), Thai ( th ), Turkish ( tr ), Ukrainian ( uk ), Vietnamese ( vi ), Welsh ( cy ), Zulu ( zu )

Soon editions in Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Norwegian, Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Hungarian, Greek, Esperanto, Czech and Albanian ( in that chronological order ) were set up.

The daily news bulletins were broadcast in 12 foreign languages, ( Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish, Rumaninan, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Albanian, French, Polish, English ) and once a week in Arabic.

This programme is transmitted in 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Albanian, Rumanian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish and Arabic.

Herbert was in his own right a considerable Orientalist, and a linguist who spoke French, Italian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Greek and Albanian as well as English.

* Information in other languages, including Arabic, Albanian, Bosnian, Finnish, French, German, Persian, Polish, South kurdish and Spanish.

SMF is available in over 47 languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English British, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Auslan, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Chinese ( translation only ), Croatian, Czech, Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hakka ( interpreter only ), Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish ( Kurmanji ), Kurdish ( Sorani ), Lao, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mandarin, Nepali, Nuer, Oromo, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushto, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Tetum ( interpreter only ), Thai, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

* 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

The distinction between dialect and language has been made by scholars ( such as Francesco Bruni ): on the one hand are the languages that made up the Italian koine ; and on the other, those that had little or no part in it, such as Albanian, Greek, German, Ladin, and Occitan, which some minorities still speak.

Official languages in Kosovo are standard literary Albanian and Serbian.

Because many of the Roma are believed to have sided with the Serbs during the conflict, taking part in the widespread looting and destruction of Albanian property, Minority Rights Group International report that Romani people encounter hostility by Albanians outside their local areas.

In some languages, like Albanian, those two sounds are different phonemes.

Its other principal members are Romanian, Greek and Albanian, all of which belong to different genetic branches of the Indo-European family of languages ( Romanian is a Romance language, while Greek and Albanian each comprise their own separate branches ).

* Fan Noli produced an Albanian translation, the melody and poetics of which are highly regarded.

Sometimes a concept can itself be the subject of a proposition, such as in " There are no Albanian philosophers ".

In this case, we are not saying anything of any Albanian philosophers, but of the concept " is an Albanian philosopher " that it is not satisfied.

Performances of renown world composers are regularly performed by the Symphonic Orchestra of the Albanian Radio and Television.

Examples are Modern Greek, Albanian, Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian, Slavic languages such as Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and the modern Celtic languages such as Scottish Gaelic and Irish.

The main objectives of Albanian foreign policy are:

Today, relations between the two countries are relatively good, and, at the Albanian government ’ s request, about 250 Greek military personnel are stationed in Albania to assist with the training and restructuring of the Albanian armed forces.

There are still many Albanian workers in Greece who have not received legal papers despite promises by the Greek government.

Albanian drivers are prone to using visual and acoustic aids regularly such as honking, headlight flashing, or high beams at night.

Elements of the KLA are also responsible for post-conflict attacks on Serbs, Roma, and other non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals ... widespread and systematic burning and looting of homes belonging to Serbs, Roma, and other minorities and the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries ... combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their homes and communities ... elements of the KLA are clearly responsible for many of these crimes.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

He also got involved in the Albanian Communist Group under the tutelage of Llazar Fundo who also taught him law.

He also stressed the view that the Yugoslav Communist partisans spearheaded the Albanian partisan movement.

However, this also meant that Albanian industrial development, which was stressed heavily by Hoxha, would have to be significantly reduced.

The first records of the Albanian people as a distinct ethnicity also date to this period.

Along with the Serbian ruled Albania, there was also an Albanian state, the Principality of Arbër, and later the Kingdom of Albania.

The Ottoman period also saw the rising of semi-autonomous Albanian ruled Pashaliks and Albanians were also an important part of the Ottoman army and Ottoman administration like the case of Köprülü family.

A bicameral parliament was also created, in which an elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies ( with one deputy for every 12, 000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States ), appointed members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate.

Albanian collaborators, especially the Skanderbeg SS Division, also expelled and killed Serbs living in Kosovo.

The Albanian partisans also liberated Kosovo, part of Montenegro, and southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The level of intolerance and separation between the ethnic Albanian and Serb communities during the Tito-period was reported by sociologists to be worse than that of Croat and Serb communities in Yugoslavia which also had tensions but held some closer relations between each other.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

Tirana International Airport Mother Theresa ( Nënë Tereza in Albanian ), also known as Rinas Airport, was reconstructed in 2007.

Dhampiraj is also an Albanian surname.

Albanian entrepreneurs also imported used Greek buses and started carrying passengers on intercity routes that did not exist or had been poorly serviced during the communist era.

The Albanian telephone company had also installed two U-20 Italtel digital exchanges.

The now extinct Caucasian Albanian Church also fell under this group.

Attacks were also made on ethnic Albanian politicians opposed to the KLA, including the assassination of Zemail Mustafi, the Albanian vice-president of the Bujanovac branch of Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia.

This term also gave Lithuanian žąsìs, Irish gé ( goose, from Old Irish géiss ), Latin anser, Greek chēn, Albanian gatë ( heron ), Sanskrit hamsī, Finnish hanhi, Avestan zāō, Polish gęś, Russian гусь, Czech husa, and Persian ghāz.

He also spoke some Albanian and Bulgarian.