Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
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
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
آسف
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
albanais
  
arabe
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
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ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic