Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
France
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
désolé
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Français
  
French Name
albanais
  
français
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic