  GhegAlbanianLanguage
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Sigma KEE - GhegAlbanianLanguage
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gheg albanian language
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The GhegAlbanianLanguage is a GhegGroupAlbanianLanguage of Yugoslavia. SIL code: ALS. ISO 639-1: sq. ISO 639-2(B): alb. ISO 639-2(T): sqi. Population: 1,372,750 to 1,800,000 in Yugoslavia (1992). Ethnic Albanians are 90% of Kosovo's 2,000,000 people (1998 Los Angeles Times). Population total all countries 2,000,000 (1980 UBS). Region: Kossovo-Metohija (Kosmet). Also spoken in Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, USA. Alternate names: GEG. Comments: Books are published in Gheg in Yugoslavia. Restrictions on Albanian at Kossovo's university since 1990. Not endangered. Speakers are called 'Kossovar' in Yugoslavia. Official language. Newspapers. Shiptars: Muslim. NT 1869-1990. Also spoken in: Albania. (Language name: ALBANIAN, GHEG.) Population: 300,000 in Albania. Alternate names: GEG, GHEG, SHOPNI, GUEGUE. Dialects: MANDRICA, SHIP (KOSOVE), SCUTARI, ELBASAN-TIRANA. Comments: Speakers may be bilingual in Standard Albanian. Predominantly Muslim except in the northwest around Scutari and the Mirdita, which are RC. NT 1869-1990. See main entry under Yugoslavia. Also spoken in: Bulgaria. (Language name: ALBANIAN, GHEG.) Population: 1,000 in Bulgaria (Newmark). Comments: Not intelligible with Tosk Albanian. NT 1869-1990. Also spoken in: Macedonia. (Language name: ALBANIAN, GHEG.) Population: 242,250 in Macedonia (1992). Alternate names: GEG. Comments: Shiptars: Sunni and Bektashi Muslim. NT 1869-1990.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | albanian language | An AlbanianLanguage is any of four closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Albania and nearby countries.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | content bearing physical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | gheg group albanian language | Of the four AlbanianLanguages, one is classified as a GhegGroupAlbanianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | human language | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | indo european language | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | language family | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | linguistic expression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | natural language | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
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