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Countries

Countries

Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Russia

Second Language

Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Romanian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3633
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

710
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2921
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

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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Greetings

Hello

Përshëndetje
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Ju faleminderit
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Si jeni?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

natën e mirë
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

mirëmbrëma
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

mirëdita
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

mirëmengjes
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Ju lutem
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Me fal
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

mirupafshim
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

unë e dua ju
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Më falni
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gheg Albanian
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

3,400,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tosk Albanian
Olonets

Where They Speak

Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Olonets

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Arbëresh
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Italy
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

100,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

413
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.50 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.11 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.10 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.60 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

shqip / gjuha shqipe
Русский

Alternative Names

Shqip
Russki

French Name

albanais
russe

German Name

Albanisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[ʃcip]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Albanians
Russians

History

Origin

1462 AD
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Albanian
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Albanian
Standard Russian

Language Position

147
1 120
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Signed Forms

Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sq
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sqi
rus

ISO 639 2/B

alb
rus

ISO 639 3

sqi
rus

ISO 639 6

sqi
rus

Glottocode

alba1267
russ1263

Linguasphere

55-AAA-aaa
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Albanian and Russian Alphabets

Albanian and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Albanian and Russian. In Albanian Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Albanian and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Albanian and Russian languages. The Albanian phonology consist Albanian vowels and Albanian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Albanian greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Albanian and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Albanian and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Albanian and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Albanian and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Albanian are spoken in different Albanian Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Albanian vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Albanian dialects include: Gheg Albanian, Tosk Albanian. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Albanian and Russian Speaking population

Albanian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Albanian and Russian on Albanian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Albanian and Russian Language Codes

Albanian and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.