Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
albanais
  
serbe
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Serbs
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Standard Serbian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available