Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Romanian
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3624
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2917
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
natën e mirë
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Ju lutem
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Me fal
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
mirupafshim
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Më falni
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Greece
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Griko
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Italy
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
100,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
425
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Shqip
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
albanais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Albanisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1462 AD
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Modern Greek
Language Position
1474
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
ell
ISO 639 2/B
alb
gre
ISO 639 3
sqi
ell
ISO 639 6
sqi
ells
Glottocode
alba1267
gree1276
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic