Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
Similar To
Romanian
Derived From
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
36
Rank: 18 (Overall)
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
7
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
29
Rank: 19 (Overall)
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Good Night
natën e mirë
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Please
Ju lutem
Sorry
Me fal
Bye
mirupafshim
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Më falni
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
Rank: 50 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
Rank: 57 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Italy
How Many People Speak
100,000.00
Rank: 69 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
Rank: 63 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %
Rank: 56 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million
Rank: 73 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
Rank: 53 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Shqip
French Name
albanais
German Name
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Origin
1462 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Branch
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Language Position
14
Rank: 13 (Overall)
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
alb
ISO 639 3
sqi
ISO 639 6
sqi
Glottocode
alba1267
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic