Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
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
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Romanian
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2928
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
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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Hello
Përshëndetje
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Ju lutem
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Me fal
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
mirupafshim
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Më falni
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Kartli
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Italy
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
100,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Shqip
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
albanais
géorgien
German Name
Albanisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Georgians
Origin
1462 AD
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
14120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sq
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
kat
ISO 639 2/B
alb
geo
ISO 639 3
sqi
kat
ISO 639 6
sqi
kat
Glottocode
alba1267
nucl1302
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic