1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
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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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
100,000.003,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.50 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Kurdish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Not Available
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
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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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology