Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Molo
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
Ndiyabulela
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Unjani
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Ulale kakuhle
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
Ubusuku obuhle
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
Molo
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Ndicela
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
Ndicela uxolo
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Gcaleka
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Thembu
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Hlubi
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
20.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
isiXhosa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
French Name
albanais
  
xhosa
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
16th 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
  
isiXhosa
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Signed Xhosa
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
xh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
xho
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
xho
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
xho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
xhos1239
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
99-AUT-fa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Albanian and Xhosa Speaking population
Albanian and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Albanian vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Albanian and Xhosa Language Codes
Albanian and Xhosa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Xhosa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.