Countries
Japan
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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.
Similar To
Korean Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9936
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1429
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Përshëndetje
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Si jeni?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
natën e mirë
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
mirëdita
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
mirëmengjes
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Ju lutem
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Me fal
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
mirupafshim
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Më falni
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
kansai
Italy
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
314
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Shqip
French Name
japonais
albanais
German Name
Japanisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Albanians
Origin
1185
1462 AD
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Albanian
Language Position
814
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
alb
ISO 639 3
jpn
sqi
ISO 639 6
jpn
sqi
Glottocode
nucl1643
alba1267
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic