About Albanian Language | Albanian | Alphabets in Albanian

Countries

Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe

Second Language

Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania

Regulated By

Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana

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.

Similar To

Romanian

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 18 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 19 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Përshëndetje

Thank You

Ju faleminderit

How Are You?

Si jeni?

Good Night

natën e mirë

Good Evening

mirëmbrëma

Good Afternoon

mirëdita

Good Morning

mirëmengjes

Please

Ju lutem

Sorry

Me fal

Bye

mirupafshim

I Love You

unë e dua ju

Excuse Me

Më falni

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gheg Albanian

Where They Speak

Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

How Many People Speak

3,400,000.00

Rank: 50 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Tosk Albanian

Where They Speak

Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00

Rank: 57 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Arbëresh

Where They Speak

Italy

How Many People Speak

100,000.00

Rank: 69 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.50 million

Rank: 63 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.11 %

Rank: 56 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

3.10 million

Rank: 73 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

3.60 million

Rank: 53 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

shqip / gjuha shqipe

Alternative Names

Shqip

French Name

albanais

German Name

Albanisch

Pronunciation

[ʃcip]

Ethnicity

Albanians

History

Origin

1462 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Albanian

Standard Forms

Standard Albanian

Language Position

Rank: 13 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sqi

ISO 639 2/B

alb

ISO 639 3

sqi

ISO 639 6

sqi

Glottocode

alba1267

Linguasphere

55-AAA-aaa

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Albanian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Albanian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Albanian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Albanian. Albanian phonology gives Albanian vowels and Albanian consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Albanian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Albanian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Albanian language is given in detail in this section.

All Albanian countries

Want to explore all Albanian countries? About Albanian language serves you with all Albanian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Albanian as official language are called as Albanian countries.

Countries that use Albanian as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Albanian as second language are: .

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Learn Albanian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Albanian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Albanian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Albanian language.Learn Albanian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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Good Morning:
Good Evening:
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All Albanian Language Codes

Get to know all Albanian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Albanian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.