1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Portugal
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Romanian
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Brazil
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Portugal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
100,000.004,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.50 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
3.60 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Português
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Albanians
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Albanian
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Portuguese
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
Not Available
Not Available
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology