Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Turkey
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Romanian
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Përshëndetje
Merhaba
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Si jeni?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
natën e mirë
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
Tünaydın
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
günaydın
Please
Ju lutem
lütfen
Sorry
Me fal
üzgünüm
Bye
mirupafshim
Hoşçakal
I Love You
unë e dua ju
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Më falni
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Arbëresh
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Italy
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
100,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.10 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Shqip
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
albanais
turc
German Name
Albanisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Albanians
Turkish
Origin
1462 AD
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Albanian
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
1419
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sq
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
tur
ISO 639 2/B
alb
tur
ISO 639 3
sqi
tur
ISO 639 6
sqi
tur
Glottocode
alba1267
nucl1301
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic