Internationalismen im Albanischen

The aims of this work are to show: a) how strongly the Albanian everyday vocabulary is influenced by these lexical units, b) how well these internationalisms are integrated into the Albanian language system, c) whether there are semantic peculiarities of the interlexemes, d) from which languages the internationalisms originate and which are the main donor languages, e) whether there is a benefit of internationalisms in foreign language teaching, f) what sociocultural significance internationalisms have, g) whether there is a trend towards the internationalization of vocabulary, and h) in which subject areas they predominantly occur. Internationalisms facilitate daily interlingual communication and assist in language study and translation. They can also provide an international dimension to language teaching, as they can open new perspectives for foreign language learning in a united Europe. In this study, we identified over 2000 internationalisms in everyday vocabulary (Albanian, German, English, French).