Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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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
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Romanian
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3651
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2935
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
Namaskara
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
natën e mirë
yedde rathre
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
yedde kaande
Please
Ju lutem
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Me fal
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
mirupafshim
Barpe
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Më falni
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Jain
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Girijan
Where They Speak
Italy
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
100,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Tulu
Alternative Names
Shqip
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
albanais
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German Name
Albanisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Tuluva
Origin
1462 AD
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Tulu
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
alb
tul
ISO 639 3
sqi
tcy
ISO 639 6
sqi
tcy
Glottocode
alba1267
tulu1258
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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