Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
albanais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Albanian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Albanian and Nepali language. Albanian word for "Hello" is Përshëndetje or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Albanian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Albanian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Albanian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Albanian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Albanian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Albanian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.