Countries
Norway
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2029
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Përshëndetje
Thank You
takk
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Si jeni?
Good Night
god natt
natën e mirë
Good Evening
god kveld
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
mirëdita
Good Morning
god morgen
mirëmengjes
Please
Vær så snill
Ju lutem
Sorry
unnskyld
Me fal
Bye
ha det
mirupafshim
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Më falni
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
30,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Italy
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
194
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Norsk
Shqip
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
albanais
German Name
Nynorsk
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Albanians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1462 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Albanian
Language Position
1814
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
nor
alb
ISO 639 3
nor
sqi
ISO 639 6
nor
sqi
Glottocode
norw1258
alba1267
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic