Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Lithuania
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Poland
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Romanian
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
Sveiki
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Ačiū
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
natën e mirë
Labanakt
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Laba diena
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Labas rytas
Please
Ju lutem
Prašom
Sorry
Me fal
atsiprašau
Bye
mirupafshim
Ate
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Më falni
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Curonian
Where They Speak
Italy
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
100,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Shqip
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
albanais
lituanien
German Name
Albanisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Lithuanians
Origin
1462 AD
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Lithuanian
Language Position
1444
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
lit
ISO 639 2/B
alb
lit
ISO 639 3
sqi
lit
ISO 639 6
sqi
lit
Glottocode
alba1267
lith1251
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic