Albanian

Gjuha shqipe

Albanian is a macrolanguage, spoken in Kosovo, North Macedonia and Albania. Wikidata counts about 6.2 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro”.

Safe 6.2 m

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: sqi
ISO 639-1: sq
Glottocode: alba1267
Family: unclassified
UNESCO: Safe
Centre point: 41.00, 20.00
Wikipedia: 182 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

3countries

1scripts

—levels in the tree

SafeUNESCO level

Facts

Name	Albanian · Gjuha shqipe
Also called	Albanian language, Shqip
All speakers	6,200,000
Written in	Albanian alphabet
Official in	Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania
Grammatical cases	6 listed in Wikidata
Grammatical genders	3 listed in Wikidata
Kind	macrolanguage

Vitality

UNESCO: Safe

Languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Albanian is spoken — Map: Fobos92 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Kosovoofficial · 3 languages in the index North Macedoniaofficial · 11 languages in the index Albaniaofficial · 11 languages in the index

Also spoken in Kosovo

srpSerbianunclassified · 9 m1 · National mkdMacedonianIndo-European · 2 m1 · National