Loanwords In The Valley Of Presheva

Abstract

For various reasons, loanwords usually become part of the informal language. This can be seen in the case of the Albanian language due to long invasions, proximity, or neighborhood with the Balkans people, which has led to the use of borrowed words from different languages even today.

It is commonly thought and said that the main carriers of loanwords or the causes of linguistic interference are bilinguals. In addition, there are many other social and linguistic factors that influence these cases. The language does not accept any foreign element. There are rare cases where foreign elements that are layered into the receiving language as opposed to those that accept to be introduced into that language. However, over time, those elements can be accumulated slowly and one day they can overwhelm a receiving language (Nuhiu, 1990, p.9).

The research is based on a certain corpus of recorded narratives from one hundred interviewees in the regions of Eastern Kosovo in Bujanoc and Preševo from two Albanian-speaking countries. This is through the descriptive approach, in order to identify and describe, on the one hand, the linguistic variables that characterize the linguistic variety of that area. Thus, in a mutual way, the degree of linguistic influence of one variation on the other is also investigated, while certain linguistic elements, according to the statistical approach, are also investigated in terms of the density of their use. The research results of this quantitative study derived on the basis of statistical data as well as their interpretation, lead us to the answers to the issues that are of interest to us.