Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Romanian
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
724
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2923
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Ju lutem
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Me fal
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
mirupafshim
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Më falni
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Wu
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Yue
Where They Speak
Italy
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
100,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Shqip
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
albanais
chinois
German Name
Albanisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Han
Origin
1462 AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
zho
ISO 639 2/B
alb
chi
ISO 639 3
sqi
zho
ISO 639 6
sqi
zho
Glottocode
alba1267
sini1245
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating