Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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.
Similar To
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Romanian
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Përshëndetje
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Ju faleminderit
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Si jeni?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
natën e mirë
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
mirëmbrëma
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
mirëdita
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
mirëmengjes
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
Ju lutem
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Me fal
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
mirupafshim
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
unë e dua ju
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Më falni
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Gheg Albanian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Tosk Albanian
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Arbëresh
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
7.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
3.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
3.60 million
  
31
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
chinois
  
albanais
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Albanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ʃcip]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Albanians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
1462 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Albanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Albanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
sq
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
alb
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
alba1267
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
55-AAA-aaa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Chinese and Albanian 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 Chinese and Albanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Albanian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Albanian word for "Thank You" is Ju faleminderit. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Albanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Albanian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Albanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Albanian 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 Chinese and Albanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Albanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Albanian time required is 44 weeks.