Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
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Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Romanian
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3623
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2914
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Kumno
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Khublei
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
natën e mirë
thia sukh
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
khublei
Please
Ju lutem
Sngewbha
Sorry
Me fal
Map
Bye
mirupafshim
khublei
I Love You
unë e dua ju
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Më falni
map a nga
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
-
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
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How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Italy
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How Many People Speak
100,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Shqip
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
albanais
khasi
German Name
Albanisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Khasi people
Origin
1462 AD
1200 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Khasi
Language Position
1440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
kha
ISO 639 2/B
alb
kha
ISO 639 3
sqi
kha
ISO 639 6
sqi
kha
Glottocode
alba1267
khas1269
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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