Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Abkhazia
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Romanian
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3662
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
72
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2960
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Ju lutem
амритана
Sorry
Me fal
Амарахь
Bye
mirupafshim
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
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Excuse Me
Më falni
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Sadz
Where They Speak
Italy
Turkey
How Many People Speak
100,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Shqip
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
albanais
abkhaze
German Name
Albanisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Abkhaz people
Origin
1462 AD
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Abkhaz
Language Position
1428
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
abk
ISO 639 2/B
alb
abk
ISO 639 3
sqi
abk
ISO 639 6
sqi
abks
Glottocode
alba1267
abkh1244
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative