Countries
India
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
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
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
- 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
Kannada Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5136
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3529
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Si jeni?
Good Night
yedde rathre
natën e mirë
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
mirëdita
Good Morning
yedde kaande
mirëmengjes
Please
Daya maltadu
Ju lutem
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Me fal
Bye
Barpe
mirupafshim
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Më falni
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Italy
How Many People Speak
2.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
44
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Shqip
French Name
-
albanais
German Name
Tulu
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Albanians
Origin
14
1462 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Albanian
Language Position
2314
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
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
tcy
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
tul
alb
ISO 639 3
tcy
sqi
ISO 639 6
tcy
sqi
Glottocode
tulu1258
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic