Albanian
Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro
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Summary
Albanian is a natural language[1]. Albanian ranks in the top 3% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21,733 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Albania[3]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[4], modern language[5], language family[6]
- Subclass of: Albanian[7]
- Writing system: Latin script[8], Albanian alphabet[9], Albanian Braille[10]
- Commons category: Albanian language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: sq[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Albanian language[13]
- Language regulatory body: Academy of Sciences of Albania[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6,200,000[15]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[18]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/albanian[19]
- Native label: Gjuha shqipe[20]
- Short name: албанский[21], albanca[22], албански[23], albanščina[24], албайнаг[25]
- Different from: Caucasian Albanian[26]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[27]
- Female form of label: la langue albanaise[28]
- Studied by: albanology[29]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SQI[30], https://afbo.info/languages/18[31]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[32], accusative case[33], genitive case[34], dative case[35], ablative case[36], vocative case[37]
- Has tense: present tense[38], future tense[39], past tense[40]
- Has grammatical mood: admirative[41]
Why It Matters
Albanian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] Albanian is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]