GJUHA LETRARE SHQIPE E SOTME NË VËSHTRIMIN E HERMANN ÖLBERG-UT
CONTEMPORARY ALBANIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE ACCORDING TO HERMANN ÖLBERG’S VIEW

Summary/Abstract: Hermann Ölberg, as an Indoeuropeanist, is interested in Albanian language mainly in the diachronic plane. He was attracted by the idea of reconstructing Albanian language of ancient times on its basic elements through the analysis of words originating from the Old Greek and Latin languages. He devoted many years of study to the Albanian language and managed to penetrate into the peculiar features of the historical development of its phonetics, grammar and vocabulary, as evidenced by his study Untersuchungen zum indogermanischen Wortschatz des Albanischen und zur diachronischen Phonologie auf Grund des Vokalsystems, as well as a range of other articles. At the same time he managed to learn to speak and write the Albanian language, became informed of the development path of the literary Albanian, of the circumstances for selection of dialectal basis and establishment of a standardized literary norm. Therefore his article titled Some thoughts on "unified language", according to Ardian Klosi the editor of the anthology Quo vadis, Shqipëri?, in which it is included, is “wonderfully written in Albanian language". For prof. H. Ölberg, who has always followed closely not only Albanian language studies but also political-social developments, it was expected that after the political turnaround of the late 1990s, the role of literary Gheg dialect to be overviewed again. The reason was the "Declaration" of the linguists of Shkodra (1992), published in the newspaper "Libertas" (3/1992, Tirana), which stated a new and different evaluation of the standard Albanian language and of the Congress of Orthography (November 1972). The insights of prof. Ölberg for the standard Albanian language expressed in his article ‘Some thoughts on "unified language"’ are of interest because, among other things, they bring similarities to German language.

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