Countries
Burkina Faso
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
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
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2636
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1629
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Laafi bala
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
Si jeni?
Good Night
Ne y yungo
natën e mirë
Good Evening
ne y zabre
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
mirëdita
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
mirëmengjes
Please
gafare
Ju lutem
Sorry
gafare
Me fal
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
mirupafshim
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Y gafare
Më falni
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Taolende
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Italy
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Shqip
French Name
moré
albanais
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Albanians
Origin
11th Century AD
1462 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Mossi
Standard Albanian
Language Position
3714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
mos
alb
ISO 639 3
mos
sqi
ISO 639 6
mos
sqi
Glottocode
moss1236
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data Available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic