Get to Know the Albanian language, discover Albanian culture

 

The Albanian language is spoken by around 6 million people in the Balkans, particularly in Albania and Kosovo. The total number of speakers of Albanian throughout the world is thought to be around 7.5 million.

Albanian forms an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Its dialects include Gheg Albanian.

In Albanian, gjuha shqipe means ‘Albanian language’.

 

Why learn the Albanian language?

The town of Pogradec in Albania, by a lake in winter, surrounded by snow-capped mountains

Pogradec, Albania

Photo by Endri Killo on Unsplash

Speakers :

7.5 million

Where :

Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Greece, Turkey

Dialects :

Gheg, Tosk, Arbëresh, Arvanitika, Upper Reka, Arbanasi

A map of Albania, the Balkans, and southern Italy, showing where the different dialects of the Albanian language are spoken
 

Cover Image

Komani Lake, Albania

Photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash

Map

By ArnoldPlaton - Own work, based on map 1, and [www.muturzikin.com/carteseurope/europe.htm this dialect map here]Sources:Albanian Dialects, Robert Elsie, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21986357

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