Evaluation on Greek and Balkanic borrowings in Spanish and Albanian, in glotodidactics of Spanish to Albanians

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 93 - 98

Alba Beqaj , Adriatik Derjaj

https://doi.org/10.55246/turkophone.1533892

Abstract

In this study, we aim to highlight the place of Greek borrowings in the Spanish language and in Albanian, concerning Spanish learning as a foreign language among Albanians. After we have given a synchronous view of the current situation of the Spanish language in Albania, we will stop and separate the phenomena and cases of borrowings from ancient Greek, the importance they have for Albanian and the features we encounter during the didactics of the Spanish language. We will highlight the influence of ancient languages, especially Greek, which has influenced the lexical level of the languages in question, and consequently the terms we encounter in science, culture, literature and art. After a brief overview of the history of the Spanish language, we have also classified words in several lexical fields. In the end, we will single out the role of Greek borrowings in the didactics of Spanish in the framework of the known and the unknown. These borrowings are part of the known, such as the case of photography and hydrology, which, based on the hypotheses of Krushen and Thomason, facilitate the learning of a foreign language.

Keywords

borrowings, Spanish, grammar, lexicology, glotodidactics, Balkanism

Supporting Institution

University of Tirana, Faculty of Foreign Languages

Project Number

2022 - 1

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