1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Somalia
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
1.9 Similar To
Romanian
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic 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
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
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
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
natën e mirë
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Northern Somali
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Somali Sign Language
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