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

Connections

Source Wikipedia: Albanian Language

In the Other Atlases

Also in Film and Media Atlas: a work originally in this language.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Albanian Language

Wikimedia Foundation

Lead section
Albanian (endonym: shqip [ʃcip] , gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ] , or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanic branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.
Infobox: iso3
sqi
Infobox: date
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
Article text
The first written mention of the Albanian language was in 1284 in a witness testimony from the Republic of Ragusa, while a letter written by Dominican Friar Gulielmus Adea in 1332 mentions the Albanians using the Latin alphabet in their writings. The oldest surviving attestation of modern Albanian is from 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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