Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Nigeria
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Romanian
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3636
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2928
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
kedụ
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
dalụ
How Are You?
Si jeni?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
natën e mirë
ka chi fo
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Ju lutem
Biko
Sorry
Me fal
Ndo
Bye
mirupafshim
Kachifo
I Love You
unë e dua ju
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Më falni
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Not present
Where They Speak
Italy
-
How Many People Speak
100,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
igbo
Alternative Names
Shqip
Ibo
French Name
albanais
igbo
German Name
Albanisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Igbo people
Origin
1462 AD
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
1457
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
alb
ibo
ISO 639 3
sqi
ibo
ISO 639 6
sqi
ibo
Glottocode
alba1267
nucl1417
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative