Albanian language
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| Albanian | |
|---|---|
| shqip, gjuha shqipe | |
| Pronunciation | [ʃcip] |
| Native to | Albania, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Albanian diaspora |
Native speakers | 5.4 million in the Balkans (2011)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Dialects | |
| Latin (Albanian alphabet) Albanian Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Albania Kosovo North Macedonia[a] Montenegro[a][2] |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Officially by the Social Sciences and Albanological Section of the Academy of Sciences of Albania |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | sq |
| ISO 639-2 | alb (B) sqi (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | sqi – inclusive codeIndividual codes: aae – Arbëresh aat – Arvanitika aln – Gheg als – Tosk |
| Glottolog | alba1267[3] |
| Linguasphere | 55-AAA-aaa to 55-AAA-ahe (25 varieties) |
 The dialects of the Albanian language. (The map does not indicate where the language is majority or minority.) | |
The Albanian language (Shqip) is an Indo-European language. It is spoken mostly in Albania (3,500,000), Kosovo and 500,000 Republic of North Macedonia.
Other websites[change | change source]
- An overview of the Albanian language and culture
- Albanian language family tree
- List of free online resources for learners
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Albanian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Arbëresh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Arvanitika at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Gheg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tosk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ "Language and alphabet Article 13". Constitution of Montenegro. WIPO. 19 October 2007.
Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian shall also be in the official use.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Albanian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
