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19th century Political Patchwork Languages - Romance bastard language "Shiptar/Albanian"

The Old European Culture remained strongly vivid and persisted obstinately in the Macedonian Peninsula (i.e. Balkan ) and Eastern Europe. On contrary, the new “nations” carved from the defeated, completely enslaved and transformed tribes from the ex-Roman Empire nearer periphery, which even now live in their political enclaves (from Latin “ sclavinias ”) scattered here and there, adopted the words and expression from the Latin administrative language and alienated themselves from their true origin, credo, and old languages and scripts. One such group of people are the so-called “ Albanians ”, which is an exonym, a term completely foreign to them whatsoever, as they actually call themselves “ Škipetar ” ( or “ Shiptar ” ) . Shiptar/Albanian, same like the Chinese , in all its dialects is basically monosyllabic language, and unmistakably reveals its central-Asian origin . Even if the large majority of the today words in the Shiptar/Albanian language are borrowed from the polysyllabic Latin, they are typically distorted in monosyllabic fashion. The simpliest example are the numbers, which are directly borrowed from Italian and are originally polysyllabic ( u-no , du-e , tre , qva-tro

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