Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, 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
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
albanais
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic