85-560: Phoenix World Tour was the fourth concert tour by English singer Rita Ora , in support of her second studio album, Phoenix (2018). The tour began on 1 March 2019 in Melbourne , Australia. On 29 October 2018, Ora announced tour dates across Europe, Asia and Oceania from 1 March until 29 May 2019. Access to pre-sale tickets of the tour in Europe, which took place on 31 October 2018, was made available through album pre-order. Tickets went on sale to
170-669: A Latinis, Grecis et Sclauis ita quod in nullo se intelligunt cum aliis nationibus. (Namely, the above-mentioned Albanians have a language that is different from the languages of Latins, Greeks and Slavs, so that they do not understand each other at all.) The oldest attested document written in Albanian dates to 1462, while the first audio recording in the language was made by Norbert Jokl on 4 April 1914 in Vienna . However, as Fortson notes, Albanian written works existed before this point; they have simply been lost. The existence of written Albanian
255-561: A common period of prehistoric coexistence of several Indo-European dialects in the Balkans prior to 2000 BC. To this group would belong Albanian, Ancient Greek , Armenian , Phrygian , fragmentary attested languages such as Macedonian , Thracian , or Illyrian , and the relatively well-attested Messapic in Southern Italy. The common features of this group appear at the phonological, morphological, and lexical levels, presumably resulting from
340-850: A concert at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls , in Rome, at the vigil for Mother Teresa 's canonisation , alongside other Albanian artists, accompanied by the Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra. On 26 May 2017, Ora released her first solo single in almost two years, titled " Your Song ", which peaked at number seven in the UK. The song served as the lead single from Ora's second studio album, after previous attempts at her second record were lost in her lawsuit against her former label, Roc Nation. The second single, " Anywhere ", became her eleventh top ten song in
425-506: A counter-lawsuit against Ora for breaking her recording contract, in New York. They reached a settlement in May 2016. In June 2016, it was reported that she signed a new record deal with Atlantic Records . In July 2016, Tyra Banks , the creator of America's Next Top Model , announced that Ora would replace her as host of the revamped show which aired on VH1 . On 3 September 2016, she performed in
510-472: A large amount (or the majority) of their sea environment lexicon. A similar phenomenon could be observed with agricultural terms. While the words for 'arable land', 'wheat', 'cereals', 'vineyard', 'yoke', 'harvesting', 'cattle breeding', etc. are native, the words for 'ploughing', 'farm' and 'farmer', agricultural practices, and some harvesting tools are foreign. This, again, points to intense contact with other languages and people, rather than providing evidence of
595-477: A multi-year designer collaboration with Ora for their brand of casual sports clothing, Adidas Originals . Ora designed her own apparel collections for the brand, including footwear and accessories. In 2016, she collaborated with Italian fashion brand, Tezenis , on a capsule lingerie collection . In 2018, Ora co-designed a shoe collection with the Italian footwear designer, Giuseppe Zanotti . After appearing as
680-475: A number of isoglosses with Albanian. Other linguists linked the Albanian language with Latin , Greek and Armenian , while placing Germanic and Balto-Slavic in another branch of Indo-European. In current scholarship there is evidence that Albanian is closely related to Greek and Armenian, while the fact that it is a satem language is less significant. Armenian Greek Phrygian (extinct) Messapic (extinct) Gheg Tosk Messapic
765-474: A performing arts school, Sylvia Young Theatre School . An appearance in an episode of the British drama series, The Brief , was her first acting role, at age 13. Shortly after, she appeared in the British film, Spivs (2004). She also began performing at open mic sessions around London and, occasionally, in her father's pub. In 2008, she auditioned for Eurovision: Your Country Needs You on BBC One to be
850-587: A possible linguistic homeland (also known as a Urheimat ). The centre of Albanian settlement remained the Mat River. In 1079, the Albanians were recorded farther south in the valley of the Shkumbin River. The Shkumbin, a 181 km long river that lies near the old Via Egnatia , is approximately the boundary of the primary dialect division for Albanian, Tosk and Gheg . The characteristics of Tosk and Gheg in
935-755: A solo artist. Shortly after, Ora's management got in touch with the American label, Roc Nation , and told them about her. Ora signed a recording deal and a publishing deal with Roc Nation in December 2008, and was one of their first signees. She made a cameo appearance in Jay Z 's video for " Young Forever " (2009). After being signed, Ora recorded an album and wanted to release it, but her label advised against it and she started to work on other material for her debut album. Throughout 2011, Ora released covers and videos about working on her debut album on YouTube. The videos caught
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#17329051614511020-649: A special guest at the concert held in Tirana , Albania for the 100th Anniversary of the Independence of Albania . In January 2013, Ora embarked on her first UK tour, Radioactive Tour , to support her debut album. She was nominated for three awards at the 2013 Brit Awards , including the Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act . Also in January 2013, Ora revealed that her second album would be clearer and have more direction than
1105-605: A speech on immigration and the Syrian refugee crisis at the We Day UK event in London, organised by Free the Children . In April 2019, she became one of UNICEF UK 's ambassadors. Ora's mother is Catholic and her father is a nominal Muslim . She considers herself spiritual but not religious . Her maternal grandfather, Osman Bajraktari, was the Albanian consul to Russia (then part of
1190-910: A strong sense of identity and are unique in that they speak an archaic dialect of Tosk Albanian called Arbëresh . In the United States and Canada, there are approximately 250,000 Albanian speakers. It is primarily spoken on the East Coast of the United States, in cities like New York City, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit, as well as in parts of the states of New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut. In Argentina, there are nearly 40,000 Albanian speakers , mostly in Buenos Aires. Approximately 1.3 million people of Albanian ancestry live in Turkey , with more than 500,000 recognizing their ancestry, language and culture . There are other estimates, however, that place
1275-659: Is also spoken by 450,000 Albanian immigrants in Greece, making it one of the commonly spoken languages in the country after Greek. Albanian is the third most common mother tongue among foreign residents in Italy . This is due to a substantial Albanian immigration to Italy. Italy has a historical Albanian minority of about 500,000, scattered across southern Italy, known as Arbëreshë . Approximately 1 million Albanians from Kosovo are dispersed throughout Germany , Switzerland and Austria . These are mainly immigrants from Kosovo who migrated during
1360-500: Is called Albanoid in reference to a specific ethnolinguistically pertinent and historically compact language group. Whether descendants or sisters of what was called ' Illyrian ' by classical sources, Albanian and Messapic , on the basis of shared features and innovations, are grouped together in a common branch in the current phylogenetic classification of the Indo-European language family. The first written mention of Albanian
1445-592: Is considered the closest language to Albanian, grouped in a common branch titled Illyric in Hyllested & Joseph (2022). Hyllested & Joseph (2022) in agreement with recent bibliography identify Greco-Phrygian as the IE branch closest to the Albanian-Messapic one. These two branches form an areal grouping – which is often called "Balkan IE" – with Armenian. The hypothesis of the " Balkan Indo-European " continuum posits
1530-668: Is derived from the Turkish word saatçi , which means 'watchmaker'), but her parents later added Ora ( ora means 'time' in Albanian ) to the family surname so it could be easily pronounced. Her family left Kosovo for political reasons, due to the persecution of Albanians initiated with the disintegration of Yugoslavia . They relocated to London in 1991, when Ora was a baby. She grew up in Notting Hill , in West London and attended
1615-557: Is estimated to have as many as 7.5 million native speakers. Albanian and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region. Albanian in antiquity is often thought to have been an Illyrian language for obvious geographic and historical reasons, or otherwise an unmentioned Balkan Indo-European language that was closely related to Illyrian and Messapic . The Indo-European subfamily that gave rise to Albanian
1700-662: Is explicitly mentioned in a letter attested from 1332, and the first preserved books, including both those in Gheg and in Tosk, share orthographic features that indicate that some form of common literary language had developed. By the Late Middle Ages , during the period of Humanism and the European Renaissance , the term lingua epirotica ' Epirotan language ' was preferred in the intellectual, literary, and clerical circles of
1785-467: Is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour. Rita Ora Rita Sahatçiu Ora ( Albanian: [ˈɾita sahatˈtʃiu ˈɔɾa] ; born Rita Sahatçiu ; 26 November 1990) is a British singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Born in Pristina , modern-day Kosovo , she rose to prominence when she featured on DJ Fresh 's 2012 single, " Hot Right Now ", which peaked atop
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#17329051614511870-579: Is spoken in North-western Greece, while Arvanitika is spoken by the Arvanites in southern Greece. In addition, Arbëresh is spoken by the Arbëreshë people, descendants of 15th and 16th century migrants who settled in southeastern Italy, in small communities in the regions of Sicily and Calabria . These settlements originated from the (Arvanites) communities probably of Peloponnese known as Morea in
1955-482: Is spoken in the south, and Gheg spoken in the north. Standard Albanian is based on the Tosk dialect. The Shkumbin River is the rough dividing line between the two dialects. Gheg is divided into four sub-dialects: Northwest Gheg, Northeast Gheg, Central Gheg and Southern Gheg. It is primarily spoken in northern Albania, Kosovo , and throughout Montenegro and northwestern North Macedonia . One fairly divergent dialect
2040-560: Is the Upper Reka dialect , which is however classified as Central Gheg. There is also a diaspora dialect in Croatia , the Arbanasi dialect . Tosk is divided into five sub-dialects, including Northern Tosk (the most numerous in speakers), Labërisht , Cham , Arvanitika , and Arbëresh . Tosk is spoken in southern Albania, southwestern North Macedonia and northern and southern Greece. Cham Albanian
2125-399: Is the most probable. Although Albanian shares lexical isoglosses with Greek , Germanic , and to a lesser extent Balto-Slavic , the vocabulary of Albanian is quite distinct. In 1995, Taylor, Ringe , and Warnow used quantitative linguistic techniques that appeared to obtain an Albanian subgrouping with Germanic, a result which the authors had already reasonably downplayed. Indeed,
2210-580: Is the native language of the Albanian people . Standard Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo , and a co-official language in North Macedonia and Montenegro , as well as a recognized minority language of Italy , Croatia , Romania and Serbia . It is also spoken in Greece and by the Albanian diaspora , which is generally concentrated in the Americas , Europe and Oceania . Albanian
2295-554: Is the official language of Albania and Kosovo and a co-official language in North Macedonia and Montenegro . Albanian is a recognised minority language in Croatia , Italy , Romania and in Serbia . Albanian is also spoken by a minority in Greece , specifically in the Thesprotia and Preveza regional units and in a few villages in Ioannina and Florina regional units in Greece. It
2380-463: The Fifty Shades film series (2015, 2017, 2018). Ora was born on 26 November 1990 in Pristina , SFR Yugoslavia (modern-day Kosovo ), to Albanian parents. Her mother, Vera ( née Bajraktari ), is a psychiatrist and her father, Besnik Sahatçiu, is a pub owner; he studied economics . Ora has an older sister, Elena, and a younger brother, Don. She was born as Rita Sahatçiu (the surname
2465-588: The Artful Dodger . On 12 February 2021, Ora released the collaborative extended play, Bang , with Kazakh producer Imanbek . In February 2022, Ora signed a record deal with Berlin-based music label, BMG . Ora hosted the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards , with Taika Waititi, on 13 November in Düsseldorf , Germany. In February 2022, she was announced to act in the Disney+ prequel–an eight-episode limited series –to
2550-620: The British contestant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and qualified, but later withdrew from the competition after a few episodes as she "did not feel ready" and thought "that challenge wasn't for her." Her manager, Sarah Stennett (who also worked with Ellie Goulding , Jessie J and Conor Maynard ), later told HitQuarters that she reassured Ora that performing in Eurovision would hinder, rather than help her chances to make it as
2635-498: The COVID-19 restrictions by having her birthday party at a West London restaurant during a period of national lockdown. Ora had recently returned from Egypt and was supposed to be isolating for 14 days, upon her return to London, as a result. According to the police, her security offered to pay the venue £5,000 to break guidelines and asked for CCTV cameras to be switched off. The restaurant's representative denied that such payment
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2720-458: The Congress of Dibra decided that Albanian schools would finally be allowed. Albanian is an isolate within the Indo-European language family; no other language has been conclusively linked to its branch . The only other languages that are the sole surviving members of a branch of Indo-European are Armenian and Greek. The Albanian language is part of the Indo-European language family and
2805-619: The Janissary of Muhammad Ali Pasha , an Albanian who became Wāli , and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan . In addition to the dynasty that he established, a large part of the former Egyptian and Sudanese aristocracy was of Albanian origin. In addition to the recent emigrants, there are older diasporic communities around the world. Albanian is also spoken by Albanian diaspora communities residing in Australia and New Zealand . The Albanian language has two distinct dialects, Tosk which
2890-773: The Korçë District , Kamnik in Kolonja , Kolsh in the Kukës District , Rashtan in Librazhd , and Nezir in the Mat District . As in other parts of Europe, these PreIE people joined the migratory Indo-European tribes that entered the Balkans and contributed to the formation of the historical Paleo-Balkan tribes. In terms of linguistics, the pre-Indo-European substrate language spoken in the southern Balkans probably influenced pre-Proto-Albanian ,
2975-901: The League of Prizren and culminated with the Congress of Manastir held by Albanian intellectuals from 14 to 22 November 1908, in Manastir (present day Bitola ), which decided on which alphabet to use, and what the standardised spelling would be for standard Albanian. This is how the literary language remains. The alphabet is the Latin alphabet with the addition of the letters ⟨ ë ⟩ , ⟨ ç ⟩ , and ten digraphs : dh , th , xh , gj , nj , ng , ll , rr , zh and sh . According to Robert Elsie : The hundred years between 1750 and 1850 were an age of astounding orthographic diversity in Albania. In this period,
3060-562: The Princess Grace Foundation . On 1 June 2013, Ora performed at the "Chime for Change" charity concert at Twickenham Stadium in London, which raised funds and awareness for girls' and women's issues around the world. On 15 November 2014, Ora joined the charity group Band Aid 30 to record a version of the track, " Do They Know It's Christmas? ", to raise money for the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa . On 9 March 2016, she gave
3145-517: The Soviet Union ). Ora's paternal grandfather, Besim Sahatçiu , was a film and theatre director. She speaks Albanian . On 10 July 2015, Ora was named an Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo by then-president, Atifete Jahjaga , at the Embassy of Kosovo in London. Ora, who was joined at the ceremony by her parents, and former British Prime Minister and his wife, Tony and Cherie Blair , said that she
3230-570: The UK singles chart . In 2008, she signed with American rapper Jay-Z 's label Roc Nation and released her debut studio album, Ora (2012), which debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and spawned the UK number-one singles " R.I.P. " and " How We Do (Party) ". The trio of hits made her the artist with the most number-ones on the chart that year. In 2014, Ora featured on Australian rapper Iggy Azalea 's single, " Black Widow ", which peaked at number three on
3315-537: The film adaptation of the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey , a role she later reprised in the film's two sequels. Ora originally approached the production hoping to contribute to the film's soundtrack and instead was asked to audition for the role of Mia Grey by the director of the film, Sam Taylor-Johnson . On 22 February 2015, at the 87th Academy Awards , she performed the song " Grateful ", which appears in Gina Prince-Bythewood 's film, Beyond
3400-679: The 14th century, but they failed to cite specific words. The oldest surviving documents written in Albanian are the " formula e pagëzimit " (Baptismal formula), Un'te paghesont' pr'emenit t'Atit e t'Birit e t'Spertit Senit . ("I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit ") recorded by Pal Engjelli, Bishop of Durrës in 1462 in the Gheg dialect, and some New Testament verses from that period. The linguists Stefan Schumacher and Joachim Matzinger (University of Vienna) assert that
3485-519: The 1990s. In Switzerland , the Albanian language is the sixth most spoken language with 176,293 native speakers. Albanian became an official language in North Macedonia on 15 January 2019. There are large numbers of Albanian speakers in the United States, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Canada . Some of the first ethnic Albanians to arrive in the United States were the Arbëreshë. The Arbëreshë have
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3570-477: The 2017 film, Beauty and The Beast , in a role described as a "fugitive with surprising abilities who carries with her a secret that could potentially affect an entire kingdom", but the project has been put on hold indefinitely. On 27 January 2023, she released the song, " You Only Love Me ", as the lead single from her third studio album, You & I . On 19 April, she released the song, " Praising You ", in collaboration with Fatboy Slim , and announced that
3655-501: The Albanian and Germanic branches share a relatively moderate number of lexical cognates. Many shared grammatical elements or features of these two branches do not corroborate the lexical isoglosses. Albanian also shares lexical linguistic affinity with Latin and Romance languages. Sharing linguistic features unique to the languages of the Balkans , Albanian also forms a part of the Balkan linguistic area or sprachbund . The place and
3740-544: The Albanian language was on 14 July 1284 in Ragusa in modern Croatia ( Dubrovnik ) when a crime witness named Matthew testified: "I heard a voice crying on the mountain in the Albanian language" ( Latin : Audivi unam vocem, clamantem in monte in lingua albanesca ). The Albanian language is also mentioned in the Descriptio Europae Orientalis dated in 1308: Habent enim Albani prefati linguam distinctam
3825-435: The Albanian language was put to writing in at least ten different alphabets – most certainly a record for European languages. ... the diverse forms in which this old Balkan language was recorded, from the earliest documents to the beginning of the twentieth century ... consist of adaptations of the Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabets and (what is even more interesting) a number of locally invented writing systems. Most of
3910-485: The Lights (2014). In December 2015, Ora filed a lawsuit against Roc Nation, seeking release from the label and citing that the contract she signed in 2008 is "unenforceable", due to California's " seven-year rule ". The complaint stated that she's "only been permitted to release one album despite creating multiple additional records for release" and that her relationship with Roc Nation is "irrevocably damaged". In 2015, she
3995-510: The Middle Ages. Among them the Arvanites call themselves Arbëror and sometime Arbëresh. The Arbëresh dialect is closely related to the Arvanites dialect with more Italian vocabulary absorbed during different periods of time. The Albanian language has been written using many alphabets since the earliest records from the 15th century. The history of Albanian language orthography is closely related to
4080-443: The Shkumbin river since the Post-Roman and Pre-Slavic period, straddling the Jireček Line . Centuries-old communities speaking Albanian dialects can be found scattered in Greece (the Arvanites and some communities in Epirus , Western Macedonia and Western Thrace ), Croatia (the Arbanasi ), Italy (the Arbëreshë ) as well as in Romania , Turkey and Ukraine . The Malsia e Madhe Gheg Albanian and two varieties of
4165-412: The Tosk dialect, Arvanitika in Greece and Arbëresh in southern Italy, have preserved archaic elements of the language. Ethnic Albanians constitute a large diaspora , with many having long assimilated in different cultures and communities. Consequently, Albanian-speakers do not correspond to the total ethnic Albanian population, as many ethnic Albanians may identify as Albanian but are unable to speak
4250-545: The UK, and the latter became Ora's first top ten song on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number three. On 14 December 2014, Ora performed at the 2014 telecast of Christmas in Washington , filmed at the National Building Museum . In February 2015, Ora featured on Charli XCX song, " Doing It ", which debuted at number eight in the UK. In April 2014, Ora appeared alongside Korean popstar, Hyuna , in an episode of Funny or Die called "Girl, You Better Walk." In 2015, she played Christian Grey's sister, Mia, in
4335-408: The UK, peaking at number two. Ora hosted the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards on 12 November in London, at Wembley Arena . In January 2018, Ora released the song " For You " (with Liam Payne ), from the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Freed . On 18 September 2018, Ora revealed the title of her second studio album, Phoenix , and its release date, 23 November. On 21 September, she released
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#17329051614514420-413: The US Billboard Hot 100 . The following year, she was named an Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo . After parting ways with Roc Nation, Ora signed with Atlantic Records to release her second studio album, Phoenix (2018). The album spawned the moderate hit singles " Your Song ", " Anywhere " and " Let You Love Me "; the latter made Ora the first British female solo artist to have thirteen top-ten songs in
4505-432: The United Kingdom. Her third studio album, You & I (2023), debuted at number six in the UK. Aside from her recording career, Ora has served as a judge on television talent shows, including The X Factor UK (2015), The Masked Singer UK (2020–present), and The Masked Singer US (2024), as well as a coach on The Voice UK (2015) and The Voice Australia (2021–2023). As an actress, she played Mia Grey in
4590-399: The album would be released on 14 July. You & I debuted at number six in the United Kingdom. In September 2023, Fox announced that Ora would join the American version of The Masked Singer as a judge. On 11 October Australian singer Kylie Minogue announced Rita Ora would be the supporting act to her U.S leg of the Tension Tour alongside Romy. In January 2014, Adidas announced
4675-404: The album's fourth single, " Let You Love Me ". The song reached number four in the UK, marking Ora's 13th top-ten song, thus breaking a 30-year-old record for most top ten songs by a British female solo artist (previously jointly held by Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark ). From 1 March to April 2019, she went on the Phoenix World Tour in Europe, Asia and Oceania. In April 2019, Ora released
4760-418: The attention of DJ Fresh , who at that time was looking for a female vocalist for his song, " Hot Right Now ". Ora featured on the single that was released on 12 February 2012, debuting at number one on the UK Singles Chart . During February 2012, Ora was also the opening act at the UK concerts from Drake 's Club Paradise Tour . The first UK single from her debut album, " R.I.P. " (featuring Tinie Tempah ),
4845-399: The contact between the various languages. The concept of this linguistic group is explained as a kind of language league of the Bronze Age (a specific areal-linguistics phenomenon), although it also consisted of languages that were related to each other. A common prestage posterior to PIE comprising Albanian, Greek, and Armenian, is considered as a possible scenario. In this light, due to
4930-578: The cultural orientation and knowledge of certain foreign languages among Albanian writers. The earliest written Albanian records come from the Gheg area in makeshift spellings based on Italian or Greek. Originally, the Tosk dialect was written in the Greek alphabet and the Gheg dialect was written in the Latin script . Both dialects had also been written in the Ottoman Turkish version of the Arabic script , Cyrillic , and some local alphabets ( Elbasan , Vithkuqi , Todhri , Veso Bey, Jan Vellara and others, see original Albanian alphabets ). More specifically,
5015-494: The face of Escada , Ora co-designed a capsule collection with the brand in 2019. In September 2023, the Dublin-based retailer, Primark , announced a multi-season fashion collaboration with Ora. The first collection, co-designed by Ora, consisted of 169 pieces across knitwear, denim, tailoring and outerwear, along with shoes and accessories. In 2010, Ora featured in a commercial for Skullcandy headphones. In 2011, she appeared in Calvin Klein 's CK One campaign. In 2013, she
5100-411: The first literary records of Albanian date from the 16th century. The oldest known Albanian printed book, Meshari , or "missal", was written in 1555 by Gjon Buzuku , a Roman Catholic cleric. In 1635, Frang Bardhi wrote the first Latin–Albanian dictionary. The first Albanian school is believed to have been opened by Franciscans in 1638 in Pdhanë . One of the earliest Albanian dictionaries
5185-506: The first one. On 26 February 2013, she revealed to Digital Spy that her second album shows a different angle to a "party girl." On 24 May 2013, Ora was the headline act on In New Music We Trust stage at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend . On 28 June 2013, she performed on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury . In 2014, she had two top-five UK singles; the song " I Will Never Let You Down " which debuted at number one, and she featured on Iggy Azalea 's " Black Widow " which peaked at number four in
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#17329051614515270-435: The general public two days later, on 2 November. This was Ora's first solo tour in Asia and Australia, and her first arena tour in the United Kingdom. Additional tour dates and music festivals appearances were announced later on. All the scheduled tour events in 2020 were either postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . This set list is representative of the concert on 1 March 2019, in Melbourne, Australia. It
5355-477: The language. Standard Albanian is a standardised form of spoken Albanian based on Tosk . The language is spoken by approximately 6 million people in the Balkans, primarily in Albania, Kosovo , North Macedonia , Serbia , Montenegro and Greece . However, due to old communities in Italy and the large Albanian diaspora , the worldwide total of speakers is much higher than in Southern Europe and numbers approximately 7.5 million. The Albanian language
5440-534: The larger number of possible shared innovations between Greek and Armenian, it appears reasonable to assume, at least tentatively, that Albanian was the first Balkan IE language to branch off. This split and the following ones were perhaps very close in time, allowing only a narrow time frame for shared innovations. Albanian represents one of the core languages of the Balkan Sprachbund . Glottolog and Ethnologue recognize four Albanian languages. They are classified as follows: The first attested written mention of
5525-465: The latter alphabets have now been forgotten and are unknown, even to the Albanians themselves. Albanian constitutes one of the eleven major branches of the Indo-European language family , within which it occupies an independent position. In 1854, Albanian was demonstrated to be an Indo-European language by the philologist Franz Bopp . Albanian was formerly compared by a few Indo-European linguists with Germanic and Balto-Slavic , all of which share
5610-429: The names for fish and for agricultural activities (such as ploughing ) are borrowed from other languages. A deeper analysis of the vocabulary, however, shows that could be a consequence of a prolonged Latin domination of the coastal and plain areas of the country, rather than evidence of the original environment in which the Albanian language was formed. For example, the word for 'fish' is borrowed from Latin, but not
5695-401: The north and Tosk spoken to the south of the Shkumbin river . Their characteristics in the treatment of both native words and loanwords provide evidence that the split into the northern and the southern dialects occurred after Christianisation of the region (4th century AD), and most likely not later than the 6th century AD, hence possibly occupying roughly their present area divided by
5780-410: The number of people in Turkey with Albanian ancestry and or background upward to 5 million. However, the vast majority of this population is assimilated and no longer possesses fluency in the Albanian language, though a vibrant Albanian community maintains its distinct identity in Istanbul to this day. Egypt also lays claim to about 18,000 Albanians, mostly Tosk speakers. Many are descendants of
5865-412: The only surviving representative of its own branch , which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group . Although it is still uncertain which ancient mentioned language of the Balkans it continues, or where in the region its speakers lived. In general, there is insufficient evidence to connect Albanian with one of those languages, whether Illyrian , Thracian , or Dacian . Among these possibilities, Illyrian
5950-475: The song " Carry On " with Norwegian producer Kygo , as a standalone single for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu , a film in which she also briefly appears. On 31 May, she released the song " Ritual ", with Tiësto and Jonas Blue . In September 2019, Ora confirmed to Marie Claire that she had begun working on her third studio album. She provided further details regarding the music with NME , stating that "people have been coming to studio sessions from all over
6035-478: The time that the Albanian language was formed are uncertain. The American linguist Eric Hamp has said that during an unknown chronological period a pre-Albanian population (termed as "Albanoid" by Hamp) inhabited areas stretching from Poland to the southwestern Balkans. Further analysis has suggested that it was in a mountainous region rather than on a plain or seacoast. The words for plants and animals characteristic of mountainous regions are entirely original, but
6120-503: The time, and used as a synonym for the Albanian language. Published in Rome in 1635, by the Albanian bishop and writer Frang Bardhi, the first dictionary of the Albanian language was titled Latin : Dictionarium latino-epiroticum ' Latin-Epirotan dictionary ' . During the five-century period of the Ottoman presence in Albania , the language was not officially recognised until 1909, when
6205-563: The treatment of the native words and loanwords from other languages are evidence that the dialectal split preceded the Slavic migrations to the Balkans , which means that in that period (the 5th to 6th centuries AD), Albanians were occupying nearly the same area around the Shkumbin river, which straddled the Jireček Line . References to the existence of Albanian as a distinct language survive from
6290-421: The word for 'gills' which is native. Indigenous are also the words for 'ship', 'raft', 'navigation', 'sea shelves' and a few names of fish kinds, but not the words for 'sail', 'row' and 'harbor'; objects pertaining to navigation itself and a large part of sea fauna. This rather shows that Proto-Albanians were pushed away from coastal areas in early times (probably after the Latin conquest of the region) and thus lost
6375-418: The world. I've been working on this now for the past two years, on and off. I have plans for this third album to be something I've never done before." From January 2020, Ora has judged the UK version of the music game show The Masked Singer . From 2021 to 2023, she was a coach on The Voice Australia . In the January 2021 film Twist , an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist , Ora played
6460-530: The writers from northern Albania and under the influence of the Catholic Church used Latin letters, those in southern Albania and under the influence of the Greek Orthodox church used Greek letters, while others throughout Albania and under the influence of Islam used Arabic letters. There were initial attempts to create an original Albanian alphabet during the 1750–1850 period. These attempts intensified after
6545-674: Was "overwhelmed" by the honour. Ora dated Scottish DJ Calvin Harris from 2013 until June 2014. In 2016, she and American musician Andrew Watt started dating. They were together for two years until September 2018; they got back together in January 2019, but broke up again in October 2019. Since 2021, she has been in a relationship with New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi . They married in August 2022 and live in Los Angeles. In November 2020, Ora broke
6630-527: Was a coach on the fourth series of The Voice UK on BBC One , replacing Kylie Minogue . The same year, it was confirmed that Ora and BBC Radio 1 presenter, Nick Grimshaw , signed as judges for the twelfth series of The X Factor on the rival TV network, ITV , after a bidding war between The X Factor and The Voice UK . She hosted the BBC Radio 1's Teen Awards , alongside Grimshaw, several times (from 2013 to 2017). In January 2016, Roc Nation filed
6715-531: Was in 1284 in a witness testimony from the Republic of Ragusa , while a letter written by Dominican Friar Gulielmus Adea in 1332 mentions the Albanians using the Latin alphabet in their writings. The oldest surviving attestation of modern Albanian is from 1462. The two main Albanian dialect groups (or varieties ), Gheg and Tosk , are primarily distinguished by phonological differences and are mutually intelligible in their standard varieties, with Gheg spoken to
6800-524: Was made. Ora apologised for the breach and was fined £10,000. Headlining Supporting Albanian language Albanian ( endonym : shqip [ʃcip] , gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ] , or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt] ) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch , which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group . It
6885-682: Was one of the cast members of Marks & Spencer 's "Leading Ladies" campaign. Later in 2014, she appeared as the face of Roberto Cavalli Autumn/Winter campaign. In 2015, she appeared in Coca-Cola and Samsung Galaxy S6 advertising campaigns. In 2019, she was the face of several German brands; luxury fashion label, Escada , jewellery company, Thomas Sabo , and footwear retailer, Deichmann . Ora appeared in "London After Hours" campaign for Pepe Jeans in 2023. On 23 March 2013, Ora performed at Bal de la Rose du Rocher in Monte Carlo in aid of
6970-625: Was released on 27 August 2012 in Europe and Oceania, and debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart . Ora was nominated for Best New Artist, Push Artist and Best UK/Ireland Act at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards . In September 2012, it was announced that Ora would be the opening act on the UK concerts from Usher 's Euphoria Tour set to start in January 2013. However, the tour was postponed due to Usher's "professional and personal commitments." " Shine Ya Light ", released on 4 November, became Ora's fourth consecutive UK top ten single in 2012 , peaking at number ten. On 28 November 2012, Ora performed as
7055-542: Was released on 6 May 2012. Produced by Chase & Status , the song debuted at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming her first solo UK number one. On 12 August, " How We Do (Party) " was released as a single, and it reached number one in the UK and Ireland. It was Ora's second UK number one as a solo artist, and third overall in 2012. Whilst supporting Coldplay on their Mylo Xyloto Tour , she later announced that her debut album would be titled Ora . The album
7140-450: Was the face of Italian sneaker brand, Superga , and the face of Material Girl , a clothing line designed by Madonna . In September 2013, cosmetics brand, Rimmel , announced their collaboration with Ora for makeup collections. She was the face of two Donna Karan 2014 collections, Resort collection and Autumn/Winter collection. She was also the face of the label's fragrance, DKNY My NY, inspired by New York City. In March 2014, Ora
7225-658: Was written in 1693; it was the Italian manuscript Pratichae Schrivaneschae authored by the Montenegrin sea captain Julije Balović and includes a multilingual dictionary of hundreds of the most frequently used words in everyday life in Italian, Slavic, Greek, Albanian, and Turkish . Pre-Indo-European (PreIE) sites are found throughout the territory of Albania. Such PreIE sites existed in Maliq , Vashtëmi , Burimas , Barç , Dërsnik in
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