Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Nepal
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Romanian
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Good afternoon
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Ju lutem
कृपया
Sorry
Me fal
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
mirupafshim
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Më falni
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Italy
Nepal
How Many People Speak
100,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Shqip
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
albanais
népalais
German Name
Albanisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1462 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Nepali
Language Position
1459
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sq
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
nep
ISO 639 2/B
alb
nep
ISO 639 3
sqi
npi
ISO 639 6
sqi
nep
Glottocode
alba1267
nepa1254
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative