Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Biko
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
Ndo
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Ibo
  
French Name
albanais
  
igbo
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Standard Igbo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Albanian and Igbo Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Albanian and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Albanian and Igbo language. Albanian word for "Hello" is Përshëndetje or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Albanian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Albanian vs Igbo Difficulty
The Albanian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Albanian Alphabets and Igbo Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Albanian and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Albanian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Albanian is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.