Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Japan
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Palau
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Romanian
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3699
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2914
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Ju lutem
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Me fal
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
mirupafshim
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Më falni
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Kansai
Where They Speak
Italy
kansai
How Many People Speak
100,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
日本語
Alternative Names
Shqip
Nihongo
French Name
albanais
japonais
German Name
Albanisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1462 AD
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Japanese
Language Position
148
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
alb
jpn
ISO 639 3
sqi
jpn
ISO 639 6
sqi
jpn
Glottocode
alba1267
nucl1643
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic