Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
South Africa
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Romanian
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2943
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
Molo
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Unjani
Good Night
natën e mirë
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Molo
Please
Ju lutem
Ndicela
Sorry
Me fal
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
mirupafshim
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Më falni
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Thembu
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Italy
South Africa
How Many People Speak
100,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Shqip
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
albanais
xhosa
German Name
Albanisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Albanians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
1462 AD
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
isiXhosa
Language Position
1421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
xho
ISO 639 2/B
alb
xho
ISO 639 3
sqi
xho
ISO 639 6
sqi
xho
Glottocode
alba1267
xhos1239
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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