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There is no one Albanian intonation. If you think that the standard pronunciation used on Albanian television sounds like Romanian, or like Oltenian-dialect Rom

There is no one Albanian intonation. If you think that the standard pronunciation used on Albanian television sounds like Romanian, or like Oltenian-dialect Romanian, then OK. But in general the Albanian language is extremely fractured dialectally – it is quite common in the region to go over a mountain pass and find that the people on that side speak markedly different, yet it is a distance of only a few km. I personally see very little in common in intonation between an Albanian speaker from, say, Gjirokastër and one from Kukës or Prishtina, and I suspect you might agree too if you checked out representatives of all these varieties on YouTube. As I said elsewhere in this thread, Thracian has been conclusively shown to represent a different branch of Indo-European than Albanian, so the idea of “Thracian/Dacian” playing a role in similarities between Albanian and Romanian is very out of date.

paganel 3y ago
> Thracian has been conclusively shown to represent a different branch of Indo-European than Albanian, Has it? And to the intonation thing, maybe I worded it wrong, as English is obviously not my primary language, but I'd say each and every language (or the great majority of them, anyway) have a distinct way of pronouncing their words. For example Italian, which I managed to learn just by watching TV as a kid, has definitely a different intonation compared to how we, Romanians, speak, even though they're both Romance languages and pretty close (closer than Romanian is to French, for example). Close to us, I find that both Serbs and Bulgarians have different intonation compared to Romanian.