1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Not Available
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Romanian
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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
Not Available
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
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
natën e mirë
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
mirupafshim
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
South Africa
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
South Africa
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
3.60 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
isiXhosa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Albanians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Xhosa
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology