Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Norway
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Romanian
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
hallo
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
takk
How Are You?
Si jeni?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
natën e mirë
god natt
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
god kveld
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
god morgen
Please
Ju lutem
Vær så snill
Sorry
Me fal
unnskyld
Bye
mirupafshim
ha det
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Më falni
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Sogn
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Italy
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
100,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
419
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Norsk
Alternative Names
Shqip
Norsk
French Name
albanais
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Albanisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Albanians
Norwegians
Origin
1462 AD
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
1418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sq
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
nor
ISO 639 2/B
alb
nor
ISO 639 3
sqi
nor
ISO 639 6
sqi
nor
Glottocode
alba1267
norw1258
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional