Albanian language

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Albanian
shqip, gjuha shqipe, 𐔀𐔐𐔁𐔀𐔓𐔍𐔀𐔔
Pronunciation	[ʃcip]
Native to	Albania, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria, Albanian diaspora
Native speakers	7.6 million (2011)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Albanian
Dialects	Gheg Tosk Arbëresh Arvanitika
Writing system	Latin (Albanian alphabet) Albanian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Albania  Kosovo  North Macedonia[a]  Montenegro[a][2]
Recognised minority language in	Italy  Serbia  Croatia  Romania  Bulgaria
Regulated by	Officially by the Social Sciences and Albanological Section of the Academy of Sciences of Albania
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sq
ISO 639-2	alb (B) sqi (T)
ISO 639-3	sqi – inclusive code Individual codes: aae – Arbëresh aat – Arvanitika aln – Gheg als – Tosk
Glottolog	alba1267
Linguasphere	55-AAA-aaa to 55-AAA-ahe (25 varieties)
The dialects of the Albanian language. (The map does not indicate where the language is majority or minority.)
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The Albanian language (Shqip) is an Indo-European language. It is spoken mostly in Albania (3,500,000), Kosovo and (500,000) Republic of North Macedonia.

1. ↑ Albanian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Arbëresh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Arvanitika at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Gheg at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Tosk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ↑ "Language and alphabet Article 13". Constitution of Montenegro. WIPO. 19 October 2007. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2021. Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian shall also be in the official use.