Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Romanian
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3628
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
您好
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
谢谢
How Are You?
Si jeni?
你好吗？
Good Night
natën e mirë
晚安
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
晚上好
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
下午好
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
早上好
Please
Ju lutem
请
Sorry
Me fal
遗憾
Bye
mirupafshim
再见
I Love You
unë e dua ju
我爱你
Excuse Me
Më falni
原谅我
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Italy
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
100,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Shqip
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
albanais
cantonais
German Name
Albanisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Han Chinese
Origin
1462 AD
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sq
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
yue
ISO 639 2/B
alb
yue
ISO 639 3
sqi
No data available
ISO 639 6
sqi
yue
Glottocode
alba1267
cant1236
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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