Albanian language

Albanian
Albanian
shqip, gjuha shqipe, 𐔀𐔐𐔁𐔀𐔓𐔍𐔀𐔔
Pronunciation	[ʃcip]
Native to	Albania, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria, Albanian diaspora
Native speakers	7.6 million (2011)e18
Language family	Indo-European Albanian;
Dialects	Gheg Tosk Arbëresh Arvanitika
Writing system	Latin (Albanian alphabet); Albanian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Albania; Kosovo; North Macedonia; Montenegro
Recognised minority language in	Italy; Serbia; Croatia; Romania; Bulgaria
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 code; Individual codes:; aae – Arbëresh; aat – Arvanitika; aln – Gheg; als – Tosk
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.)
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The Albanian language (Shqipcode: sq is deprecated ) is an Indo-European language. It is spoken mostly in Albania (3,500,000), Kosovo and (500,000) Republic of North Macedonia.

Counting from one to 10 in Albanian

Dialects

Map of countries where Albanian holds official status: Official language* Recognised minority language
Tree of Albanian language and its dialects.
Albanian keyboard layout.
Albanian within Indo-European language family tree based on "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis of Indo-European languages" by Chang et al. (January 2015).
1905 issue of the magazine Albania, the most important Albanian periodical of the early 20th century
Buzukumeshari
Perikopeja e Ungjillit të Shën Mateut
Possibly the oldest surviving Albanian text, highlighted in red, from the Bellifortis manuscript, written by Konrad Kyeser around 1402–1405.