1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
1.9 Similar To
Romanian
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Përshëndetje
3.2 Thank You
Ju faleminderit
3.3 How Are You?
Si jeni?
3.4 Good Night
natën e mirë
3.5 Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
3.6 Good Afternoon
mirëdita
3.7 Good Morning
mirëmengjes
3.8 Please
Ju lutem
3.9 Sorry
Me fal
3.10 Bye
mirupafshim
3.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
3.12 Excuse Me
Më falni
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
Rank: 20 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
Rank: 20 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Arbëresh
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Italy
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
100,000.00
Rank: 28 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
Rank: 63 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million
Rank: 73 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
Rank: 31 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
albanais
5.3.5 German Name
Albanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
5.5 Ethnicity
Albanians
6 History
6.1 Origin
1462 AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sq
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
sqi
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
alb
7.3 ISO 639 3
sqi
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
alba1267
7.6 Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic