Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
albanais
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic