Countries
India
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
-
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3036
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Adi Johar
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Si jeni?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
natën e mirë
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
mirëdita
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
mirëmengjes
Please
দয়া করে
Ju lutem
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Me fal
Bye
Hariau
mirupafshim
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Më falni
Dialect 1
Mahali
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
India
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
-
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
-
Italy
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Shqip
French Name
santal
albanais
German Name
Santali
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Albanians
Origin
20th century
1462 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Albanian
Language Position
4114
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali 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
sat
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
sat
alb
ISO 639 3
sat
sqi
ISO 639 6
sat
sqi
Glottocode
sant1410
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic