Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Thailand
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
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Romanian
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3644
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
732
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2944
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Përshëndetje
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
Si jeni?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
natën e mirë
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
Ju lutem
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
Me fal
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
mirupafshim
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
unë e dua ju
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
Më falni
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Isan
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Isan
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Italy
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
100,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.50 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.85 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.10 million20.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
3.60 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Shqip
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
albanais
thaï
German Name
Albanisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
1462 AD
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
-
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Thai
Language Position
1447
1
120
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Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
tha
ISO 639 2/B
alb
tha
ISO 639 3
sqi
tha
ISO 639 6
sqi
tha
Glottocode
alba1267
thai1261
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating