Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
India
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
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
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Romanian
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
Namaskar
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Si jeni?
kaso assa?
Good Night
natën e mirë
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Ju lutem
Chike
Sorry
Me fal
Maf kor
Bye
mirupafshim
Adeus
I Love You
unë e dua ju
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Më falni
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Antruz
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Goa
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Not present
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Not present
Where They Speak
Italy
-
How Many People Speak
100,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Shqip
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
albanais
konkani
German Name
Albanisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Albanians
Konkanis
Origin
1462 AD
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Kokani
Language Position
1423
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sq
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
kok
ISO 639 2/B
alb
kok
ISO 639 3
sqi
kok
ISO 639 6
sqi
kok
Glottocode
alba1267
goan1235
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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