Language

Albanian

Baltic, Armenian, Albanian, Hellenic and Ancestral Indo-European Languages

Albanian is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanic branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

sqi 1

Speaker Count

7,500,000 1

2017 estimate, native speakers.

Status

Living 1

Attested From (Year)

from 1462 1

Region

Albania, Kosovo 1

Classification

Official Status

Co-Official Language 1

Albanian

1 entry

Script Type

Directionality

Script Family (Lineage)

Origin Period Start Year

Influenced

Connections

Source Wikipedia: Albanian Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Albanian Language

Wikimedia Foundation

Lead section
Albanian (endonym: shqip, gjuha shqipe, or arberisht) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanic branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
sqi
Infobox, Speakers (Total)
7.5 million (2017)
Lead section, second sentence
It is the native language of the Albanian people.
Official status
Standard Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo
History, earliest written records
The oldest attested document written in Albanian dates to 1462.
Official status, Albanian entity page
Standard Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo, and a co-official language in North Macedonia and Montenegro, where it is the primary language of significant Albanian minority communities.
In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European; immediate branch: Albanoid.

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