1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Malawi, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.2 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
3.9 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
3.10.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
natën e mirë
Usiku wabwino
6.5 Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Madzulo abwino
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
mirëmengjes
M'mawa wabwino
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
mirupafshim
anatsanzikana
6.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
Ndimakukondani
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Malawi, Zambia
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Malawi, Zambia
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
700
80000000
7.5 Dialect 3
7.5.1 Where They Speak
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
7.50 million12.00 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
3.10 million12.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.2 Second Language Speakers
10.3.4 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Nyanja
10.3.5 Alternative Names
Not Available
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
10.3.6 French Name
albanais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
10.3.7 German Name
10.4 Pronunciation
10.5 Ethnicity
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Not Available
12.8 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
99-AUS-xaa – xag
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology