Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Romanian
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
715
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2941
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Ju lutem
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Me fal
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
mirupafshim
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Më falni
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Mappila
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Italy
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
100,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Shqip
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
albanais
malayalam
German Name
Albanisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Malayali
Origin
1462 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Malayalam
Language Position
1429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
mal
ISO 639 2/B
alb
mal
ISO 639 3
sqi
mal
ISO 639 6
sqi
mal
Glottocode
alba1267
mala1464
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic