Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Romanian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Përshëndetje
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Ju faleminderit
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Si jeni?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
natën e mirë
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
mirëmbrëma
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
mirëdita
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
mirëmengjes
  
Please
Please
  
Ju lutem
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Me fal
  
Bye
Bye
  
mirupafshim
  
I Love You
I love you
  
unë e dua ju
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Më falni
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Gheg Albanian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Tosk Albanian
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Arbëresh
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
7.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
3.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
3.60 million
  
31
Native Name
English
  
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
anglais
  
albanais
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Albanisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[ʃcip]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Albanians
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1462 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Old Albanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Albanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
sq
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
alb
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
alba1267
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
55-AAA-aaa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Synthetic