Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
albanais
  
russe
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Russians
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic