6th International Symposium Oriental Studies

The 6 th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies 30 Albina Girfanova Turkic Borrowings in the Albanian Language Turkic borrowings in the Albanian language appeared in the period of Ottoman expansion, which lasted almost 500 years (till 1912, the year of Albanian independence). However, it is obvious, that the first wave of bor‑ rowings is related to an earlier period of penetration of the Turkic-speaking ethnic groups to the Balkans (early Middle Ages). This is evidenced not only through different lexical-semantic groups of words, but also toponymy, pat‑ ronymy. There is a problem of differentiation of direct and indirect borrowing (from the Arabic language, or Persian). Key words: Turkology, language contacts, borrowing orientalisms, the Balkan languages.