Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
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
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
albanais
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Macedonian
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic
  
Albanian and Macedonian Speaking population
Albanian and Macedonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Macedonian languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Macedonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Macedonian 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 Macedonian on Albanian vs Macedonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Albanian and Macedonian Language Codes
Albanian and Macedonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Macedonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.