popullatën

Popullatën is an Albanian linguistic form that refers to the population. In Albanian, the noun from which it derives denotes the people or inhabitants of a country, region, or community. Popullatën represents a definite form used when the noun functions as a direct object or appears in certain grammatical constructions. The base noun is related to popullata, and Albanian marks definiteness through suffixal forms; popullatën is the form used in specific contexts that require a definite, object-like reading.

In usage, the term appears across fields such as demography, sociology, political science, journalism, and historical writing, where discussions center on the size, structure, distribution, or changes within a given population. It can occur in phrases like popullatën e vendit, meaning “the population of the country,” or in demographic analyses that examine age structure, migration, or growth trends, always with the sense of the population as a distinct, identifiable group.

Etymologically, popullatën traces to the root popull- meaning “people,” with Albanian suffixation that produces a definite, singular form. The development of this form reflects broader Albanian patterns of noun definiteness and case marking, and it is encountered primarily in formal or written Albanian texts.

See also Albanian language, demography, census data, population.

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