Countries
South Africa
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
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Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Romanian
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4329
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Unjani
Si jeni?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
natën e mirë
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
mirëdita
Good Morning
Molo
mirëmengjes
Please
Ndicela
Ju lutem
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
Me fal
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
mirupafshim
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Më falni
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
South Africa
Italy
How Many People Speak
19.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Shqip
French Name
xhosa
albanais
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Albanians
Origin
16th Century
1462 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Albanian
Language Position
2114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
xho
alb
ISO 639 3
xho
sqi
ISO 639 6
xho
sqi
Glottocode
xhos1239
alba1267
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic