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Post by donnie on Nov 29, 2009 8:51:40 GMT -5
Give the fustanella to the Greeks and they make mini-skirts ...
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Post by donnie on Nov 29, 2009 8:47:09 GMT -5
True. Turks have this tradition of kissing the hands of others who are older I believe ... never seen this among us. Just one example ... another being marriage, with Turks allowed to wed their own cousins. I recently heard that one Turkish friend of mine from high school had married her own cousin ... and in turn, her own parents too she admitted were related.
Gestures, mannerisms, posture etc, all that I would describe as pan-Balkanian rather than smth specifically shared between our two nations. Religion is the only factor which gives us perhaps a little more in common with the Turks than the others ... but this doesn't include our Christian bretheren.
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Post by donnie on Nov 28, 2009 9:02:03 GMT -5
Urime gjitheve!
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Post by donnie on Nov 27, 2009 7:44:36 GMT -5
The sound is a different matter -- it seemed you suggested their origin too was Arabic/Islamic, which is false.
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Post by donnie on Nov 27, 2009 6:22:53 GMT -5
Gezim = Happines Fatmir = Good Luck (made of two words Fat and Mire) They are not turkish or arabic. Perhaps you mistake it with Fatima. But they are completely different. I typed "origin names Gezim" in google & the first result said something about Spanish Arabic. Fatmir/Fatima same s**t. Turkish/Muslim influenced. Muslim names are shocking. I've only ever liked a very few Bosniak names like Haris & ummmmm I think there's a couple of other ones. You're going to teach us about our own names? LOL. Fatmir has nothing to do with Fatima, it is a composite of the words 'fat', related or borrowed from Latin fatum, cognate with English 'fate', meaning precisely that, fate or destiny; and the word 'mirë', meaning 'good'. The name means 'good fortune'. On the other hand the name Fatima means "baby's nurse" in Arabic. Unrelated. The name Fatos is also unrelated to Arabic, in our language it means 'youth' -- former primeminister Fatos Nano is Orthodox. Gëzim comes from the root 'gaz', meaning 'joy', a loan or cognate with Latin gaudium, which has the same meaning. The Muslim name which you're probably thinking of is Kassim, which in Arabic means "person who distributes". Some Albanian have this name, we spell it Qazim.
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Post by donnie on Nov 26, 2009 9:43:15 GMT -5
Actually, I think there are not all too few Balkanians who look like him. If we are dealing with UPs, the type is mostly common in the Albanian highlands of the north, Montenegro and the Sphakiotes of Crete. Though I havent seen any detailed study of Kosova, based from what I have seen, there are quite some people who fit the UP description. In South Albania, they are probably more rare, but not totally absent. Look at Geri Cipi, the 6'4 ft Lab from Vlore, I'd say he is a UP survivor;
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Post by donnie on Nov 26, 2009 8:32:17 GMT -5
Just saw "The International" with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. The movie was just OK but the end scene shot in Istanbul really cool. There's a shot there of Haghia Sophia and the way it is done gives an impression of the shere size and beauty. Definetely I must visit.
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Post by donnie on Nov 26, 2009 8:26:30 GMT -5
This guy is an Albanian from Kosova. Is it just me or does he look like he has some Upper Palaeolithic admixture to him? I have seen his type occasionally in Kosova, they're usually quite tall and heavy. It feels like this guy to the right in the link below has the same tendency, though with a broader face; www.luanmorina.co.uk/Luanmorinagallery.htmWhy do you say so?
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Post by donnie on Nov 25, 2009 13:11:19 GMT -5
I shumekerkuari i drejtesise shqiptare Aldo Bare u esktradua sot ne Shqiperi nga Interpoli turk. Bare qe akuzohet per dhjetra vepra te renda penale te kryera se bashke me Banden e Lushnjes qe ia e drejtonte u kap 3 vjet me pare ne Ankara me emer te rreme. Bare zbriti me nje carter ne aeroportin e Tiranes i lidhur kembe e duar dhe i shoqeruar nga RENEA bw.balkanweb.com/fotoAlbum/dritare.php?id=221&IDFoto=221
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Post by donnie on Nov 25, 2009 12:23:18 GMT -5
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Post by donnie on Nov 25, 2009 12:18:04 GMT -5
Ky me duket si emertim dervishesh. Emri "Muç" me duket eshte mysliman, si per shembull prezantuesi i lajmeve ne RTK Mustafe Mucaj ... dhe "baba" eshte perdorur si titull i sheheve, pra prifterinjve te dervisheve. Themeluesi mund te kete qene nje sheh, sigurisht muhaxhir meqenese nje pjese e muhaxhireve si ata te Suhodollit kane qene dervish ... per keto tjerat s'po flas.
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Post by donnie on Nov 24, 2009 8:13:49 GMT -5
To my knowledge there is no tradition of gusle among muslim highlanders, am I mistaken? I think they had this tradition in Sanjak, but in Bosnia I don't know. One famous guslar in Sanjak was Salih Ugljanin, although his lineage has its roots in Kosova, and this man knew how to sing in both Albanian and Slavic.
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Post by donnie on Nov 23, 2009 12:15:17 GMT -5
How about Palikari Zampidhis?
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Post by donnie on Nov 23, 2009 11:23:24 GMT -5
The ring of power?
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Post by donnie on Nov 23, 2009 9:03:12 GMT -5
Point is, how is there supposed to be a union, between languages who inherently do not share anything? You really have a difficult time understanding this, huh? Read here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_contactBasically, just like two un(or distantly)related languages might affect each other's vocabulary (loan words), they can also influence morphology and grammar. This usually happened when a conquoring people subdued another nation and imposed their language upon them. The locals were assimilated, but in some instances, their old speech leaves patterns in a so called substratum. This might be lexcial or grammatical ... how else would you explain the deviant grammar of the Bulgarian language in relation to other Slavic languages? That is smth completely different; you're speaking of Indoeuropean cognates. All IE languages share cognates. For instance the city of Bagdad is related to an old Persian word for God, compare to Slavic Bog. How about the first word which appeas in the Iliad, μῆνιν, meaning rage or wrath ... in Albanian, the word mëri means exactly the same thing. This official word has undergone the process of rhotacism where in our language, 'n' became 'r'. But in the northern dialect, they still say .... mëni !
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Post by donnie on Nov 23, 2009 8:25:57 GMT -5
Alban - Albania Jetgjat - Jeta Gjelosh - Gjela Pjeter - Petra Sokol - Sokolesha Rauf - Rufi Adrian - Adriana Patriot - Patriote Saimir - Mira Flamur - Flamure Petrit - Petrite Xhan - Xhanet (Jahn - Janet) Mirian - Miriam Astrit - Astrita Here Video, Shakir - Shakira! Astrit, Petrit, Patriot, Petra... nice names... Astrit and Petrit are bird names in Greek too?
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Post by donnie on Nov 21, 2009 12:14:42 GMT -5
Kenga e Deme Ahmetit;
Nder kenget me te gjata qe kam ndegjuar, mos me e gjata.
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Post by donnie on Nov 20, 2009 9:22:06 GMT -5
Malsor
Askush s'eshte per zhdukjen e dialektit geg ... ai do te vazhdoje te jetoje. Ka njerez si Migjen Kelmendi qe madje hapin revista qe te ruhet gegerishtja jo vetem si gjuhe e folur por edhe e shkruar. S'ka problem ... edhe veprat e Fishtes, Mjedes e te shkrimtareve dhe poeteve te tjere do te vazhdojne te jetojne. Por njekohesisht duhet te ekzistoje nje gjuhe e njesuar ... duke pasur parasysh dallimet gramatikore qe kane rrjedhur mes toskerishtes dhe gegerishtes gjate historise, kerkesa e Arbenites per nje shkrirje 50/50 mes gegerishtes dhe toskerishtes eshte e pamundur ... prandaj njeri dialekt duhet te diskriminohet. Nese zevendesohet toskerishtja me gegerishten, edhe ata si ju do te jene te pakenaqur ... se paku me kete standarde qe ekziston, kemi nje tradite prej dekadash ...
E sa i perket kesaj Arbenites, kjo nuk e flet as standarden e gegerishtes ... "jo une flas ashtu sic flasim ne 'dardanet'" ... por edhe ne Kosove dikush thote "asht" e dikush thote "osht" ... cfare te bejme tani, te jem i vetmi komb ne rruzullin tokesor pa kurrfare rregullash shkrimi? Te shkruaj ashtu sic do? "Ne mehallen time ne themi keshtu .." e tj. S'shkon ashtu.
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Post by donnie on Nov 20, 2009 9:11:16 GMT -5
Not major. Greek displays certain features that characterize this union, not all of them.
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Post by donnie on Nov 19, 2009 13:38:41 GMT -5
Te behet me artificiale se standardja qe ti e kritikove ... ?
Don't hold your breath, sic thone ne anglisht.
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