what language is Albanian and where is it spoken?
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ALBANIAN is SPOKEN IN ALBANIA.... AND .....\n\n It is the official language of Albania, where it is spoken by approximately four million native speakers. A million more people speak Albanian in MACEDONIA, and KOSOVO and MOTENEGRO , and there are a number of native speakers of Albanian dialects scattered throughout Greece and Italy. The Albanians' own name for their language is Shqip. \n\nThe exact origins of Albanian are uncertain. In the mid-1800s, linguists determined that Albanian is an Indo-European language, forming its own branch of the Indo-European language family, but it is not closely related to the other Indo-European languages. It may have been related to the ancient Dacian and Illyrian languages, but such relationships have not yet been definitively established. \n\n\nALBANIAN HAS TWO MAIN DIALECTS: Gheg, which is spoken north of the Shkumbin river , and Tosk, which is spoken south of the Shkumbin river. Educated speakers of Tosk and Gheg can usually understand each other, although less educated speakers who speak more extreme dialect variations may not be able to converse. Other dialects, mostly related to Tosk, are found in the Albanian-speaking enclaves in Italy and Greece. The Tosk dialect of Albanian is considered the official language of Albania.  A Tosk dialect Arbëreshë, is spoken by the descendants of 15th and 16th century immigrants in southeastern Italy, in small communities in the provinces of Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, Abruzzi, and Puglia.\nGheg is spoken in Kosovo, and Montenegro and Macedonia.\n\n\nHere are  some examples of a few simple phrases in Albanian\n\n\n\nYes =  Po.\n \nNo = Jo.\n\n\nPleased to meet you = Welcome! =  Mirë se vjen!\n Gëzohem që ju njoh.\n\n  Tung = Hello. \n \nGoodbye =  Shihemi. \n\nThank you =  Falemnderit.\n   \n\nMy name is ... =  Unë jam ...\n\nDo you speak English? =  A dini anglisht?\n\nI'm sorry, I don't speak Albanian =  Më vjen keq, nuk flas shqip.\n\nI need help = Më duhet ndihmë.\n \nWhere is the toilet, please? = Ku asht banja, ju lutem?\n \n\n\n I hope that helps :-)
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"German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)\nnote: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national languages, but only the first three are official languages"\n\nDont quote me on those figures, they come from the CIA LOL
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croatian = hrvatski\ni speak croatian = govorim hrvatski\n\ndutch = nederlands\ni speak dutch = ik spreek nederlands
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i can understand it but I don't know what language is it.\n\nwell at least I'm not sure and I don't want to guess.\n\nstaroslovenski or something
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Tung :-D\n (ignore those who are being rude to your country)\n\nIt is hard to know an exact figure because of how people classify statistics... What is an Albanian...someone that can speak Albanian or someone who maybe 200 years ago had an Albanian ancestor??\n\nHowever these figures from wikipedia...seem quite agreed upon...\n\nThere are approximately 8 millions Albanians...\n\n3.8 million live in Albania...so about 4.2 MILLION...live world wide...\n\nThe places with the largest number of Albanians outside Albania include...\n\nKosovo 2.2 million,\nMacedonia half a million\nGreece 6 hundred thousand\n\nand Italy 233000\n Germany, 400000\n Switzerland,200000\nand USA 114000\n\nAnd the number of Albanians in Turkey is impossible to know because Turkey doe not collect census figures on that...\nBut there most be a large population of Albanian origin because of Albania's Ottoman past ...and large population movement after the Balkan wars at the beginning of the 20th century...
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Sinti is one form of Romani, the language or cluster of languages, spoken by the so-called Gypsies.  There is debate among linguists over whether Romani is a single language with many divergent dialects, or a closely-related group of languages, of which Sinti is one.
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Tirana, Albania  \n\n41 20 North\n19 50 East
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Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. It is the language of Iran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountain region. \n\nPersian is spoken today primarily in Iran and Afghanistan, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates), as well as large communities in the USA. \n\nTotal numbers of speakers is high: over 40 million Farsi speakers (about 50% of Iran's population); over 7 million Dari Persian speakers in Afghanistan (25% of the population); and about 2 million Dari Persian speakers in Pakistan. \n\nIn Afghanistan Farsi is spoken almost everywhere and close to 60 % of Afghanistan's total population speak Farsi or Dari. The map on the right should cover Herat and the nothern parts of Afghanistan where the majority of people speak Farsi. - Thank you, Laila Ahmadi \n\n\nThree phases may be distinguished in the development of Iranian languages: Old, Middle, and Modern. Old Iranian is represented by Avestan and Old Persian. Avestan, probably spoken in the northeast of ancient Persia, is the language of the Avesta, the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism. Except for this scriptural use, Avestan died out centuries before the advent of Islam. Old Persian is recorded in the southwest in cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty (circa 550-330 BC), notably Darius I and Xerxes I. Old Persian and Avestan have close affinity with Sanskrit, and, like Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, are highly inflected languages.
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They  Speak Portuguese  Language\n\nWikipedia: Portuguese language  \nPortuguese () is an Iberian Romance language that originated in Portugal, which is now the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Macao, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.\nQuick Links: History - Derived languages - Influence on other languages\nSaved by 4 people\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language \nGOOD  LUCK
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As I'm sure you know of course the OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF SLOVENIA IS SLOVENIAN !!!!  It is a Slavic language and in my opinion something between Serbian and Czech.\n\nAround the border there are bilingual areas with Hungarian or Italian...\n\nAnybody older than 25 will speak Serbian / Croatian because Slovenia used to be in Yugoslavia...\n\n\nENGLISH IS VERY WIDELY SPOKEN especially amongst the young..\n(Let me give you an example...I went to the cinema in a small town in Slovenia to watch some American comedy..and the whole audience  were commenting and joking with themselves about the film in ENGLISH!)\n\n\nAt school As the first foreign language, English or German may be studied, with English chosen in 85 % of cases and a share of 15 % for German. The languages offered as second foreign language are German, French, Spanish, English, Russian, and Italian. In bilingual areas, Slovene, Italian and Hungarian are also taught as second languages.
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Marahaba! im not Turkish, but have freinds in Antalya and istanbul....some people tell me it is not a pretty language...but i find it to be beautiful....... and unique easy to learn too!  so try   u might like it!  cheers!
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what language is this?
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Not to forget Tamazight, the language spoken by Algeria's main ethnic minority, the Berbers of Kabylie. It is now recognized as a national language.
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Probably no one has an exact count but you could expect to find Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
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Persian (known variously as: فارسی Fārsi or پارسی Pārsi, local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Tajik, a Central Asian dialect, or Dari, another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. \nPrior to British colonization, Persian was also widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent throughout the Middle Ages and became the official court language under the Mughal emperors. \nEvidence of its former rank in the region can still be seen by the extent of its influence on Hindi and Urdu, as well as the popularity that Persian literature still enjoys in the region. Persian and its dialects have official-language status in the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. \nAccording to CIA World Factbook, there are 61 million native speakers of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is of the Subject Object Verb type. Since 200 million people speak in Persian throughout the world, UNESCO was asked to select Persian as one of its languages in 2006.
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there is at least one major language per county. in some places like affrica tribes of people can have their own language all together. in that case however in order to comunicate with other tribes those people know more than one language at all times.\n\ni speak 4 languages. english, french, german, and spanish.\n\nenglish comes in handy all over the world. french, german are only used in smaller area. \nspanish has different dialects and is a more widly used one.\n\ni sujest that you learn one language of each type first. the others come more esily that way.\n\nthe catagories are:\ngermanic: this includes english\nlatin baiced: this french, spanish, italien\nrussian: and those like are semi germanic\nasian: korean, chinese, japanes to name only a few\nmiddle eastern: hindi, jewish, greek, there are more\naustralien: and its dialects amung tribes\nafrican: and it's tribes. although french and english are commun\nsouth american: spanish is commun there
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The word gypsy has been used to refer to many different types of cultural groups that travel from place to place, but is especially affiliated with a group who speaks Romani.  \n\nWikipedia states they are located in "Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia and the Middle East "\n\nSome places Wikipedia lists as being the place this language is spoken:\nTurkey \nAlbania\nGreece\nUkraine \nWales \nFinland \nAustria\nCroatia \nCzech Republic\nFrance\nGermany\nItaly\nNetherlands\nPoland\nSerbia\nMontenegro\nSlovenia\nSwitzerland \nSlovakia\nHungary\nRomania\nUkraine \nEstonia\nLatvia\nLithuania\nBelarus\nRussia\n\nThese are places that show evidence of this language, and languages are often strongly tied to cultures.\n\nThis website also has resources that would be able to get you in contact with a person who would know how to get to know gypsies:\nhttp://www.gypsyloresociety.org/cultureintro.html