1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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
Ju faleminderit
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
natën e mirë
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
mirëmengjes
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
unë e dua ju
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.50 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.10 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
3.60 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Isizulu, Zunda
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
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Deep Zulu
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
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