Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
günaydın
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
albanais
  
turc
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic