Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
Not Available
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
albanais
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Albanian and Abkhaz Speaking population
Albanian and Abkhaz speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Abkhaz languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Abkhaz Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Abkhaz language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Albanian and Abkhaz on Albanian vs Abkhaz where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Albanian and Abkhaz Language Codes
Albanian and Abkhaz language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Abkhaz Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.