Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Romanian
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
pole
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
bye
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Zanzibar island
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Dar es Salaam
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
albanais
  
swahili
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Albanian and Swahili Speaking population
Albanian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili 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 Swahili on Albanian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Albanian and Swahili Language Codes
Albanian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.