Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Malaysia
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Thailand
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Romanian
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2924
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
Hai
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
terima kasih
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
natën e mirë
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
Selamat pagi
Please
Ju lutem
sila
Sorry
Me fal
maaf
Bye
mirupafshim
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Më falni
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Pekal
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Musi
Where They Speak
Italy
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
100,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
424
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Shqip
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
albanais
malais
German Name
Albanisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Malaysian people
Origin
1462 AD
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
1454
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
msa
ISO 639 2/B
alb
may
ISO 639 3
sqi
zsm
ISO 639 6
sqi
may
Glottocode
alba1267
stan1306
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative