Countries
Burma
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
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Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- 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
Kinyarwanda Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2136
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1929
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Urakoze
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Si jeni?
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
natën e mirë
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
mirëdita
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
mirëmengjes
Please
Ndagusavye
Ju lutem
Sorry
Ndasubiza
Me fal
Bye
N’agasaga
mirupafshim
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Më falni
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
990,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Italy
How Many People Speak
153,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Shqip
French Name
rundi
albanais
German Name
Kirundi
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Albanians
Origin
1500
1462 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Standard Albanian
Language Position
8614
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
run
alb
ISO 639 3
run
sqi
ISO 639 6
run
sqi
Glottocode
rund1242
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic