1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Romanian
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Ju faleminderit
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Si jeni?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
natën e mirë
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
mirëdita
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
mirëmengjes
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Ju lutem
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Me fal
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Më falni
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.50 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
3.60 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Albanians
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology