Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Romanian
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3621
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2919
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
Bwakeye
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Urakoze
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
natën e mirë
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Mwaramutse
Please
Ju lutem
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Me fal
Ndasubiza
Bye
mirupafshim
N’agasaga
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Më falni
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Ha
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Shubi
Where They Speak
Italy
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
100,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Shqip
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
albanais
rundi
German Name
Albanisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
1462 AD
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Kirundi
Language Position
1486
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
sq
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
run
ISO 639 2/B
alb
run
ISO 639 3
sqi
run
ISO 639 6
sqi
run
Glottocode
alba1267
rund1242
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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