1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.6 National Language
Malta
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.7 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.8 Speaking Continents
1.9 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.10 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
1.11 Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
- 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.
1.12 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Romanian
1.13 Derived From
Roman Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
5.3 Phonology
5.3.1 How Many Vowels
5.4.3 How Many Consonants
5.7 Scripts
5.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
5.9 Hard to Learn
5.9.1 Language Levels
2.3.4 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
natën e mirë
6.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
mirëmbrëma
6.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
mirëdita
6.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
mirëmengjes
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
unë e dua ju
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Malta
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.4 Dialect 2
7.4.1 Where They Speak
Malta
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
7.6 Dialect 3
7.6.1 Where They Speak
7.6.2 How Many People Speak
NA100,000.00
1400
96000000
7.10 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million7.50 million
0.13
1200
6.2 Speaking Population
7.9 Native Speakers
0.52 million3.10 million
0.13
873
7.13.2 Second Language Speakers
7.14.1 Native Name
Malti
shqip / gjuha shqipe
7.14.2 Alternative Names
7.14.3 French Name
7.14.4 German Name
7.15 Pronunciation
7.16 Ethnicity
8 History
8.1 Origin
8.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
8.2.1 Subgroup
8.2.2 Branch
North Abric
Not Available
8.3 Language Forms
8.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
8.3.2 Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Albanian
8.3.3 Language Position
1.2.1 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
1.3 Scope
2 Code
2.1 ISO 639 1
2.2 ISO 639 2
2.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
2.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
2.3 ISO 639 3
2.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
2.5 Glottocode
2.6 Linguasphere
2.7 Types of Language
2.7.1 Language Type
2.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
2.7.3 Language Morphological Typology