The Albanian language is spoken by seven million people in the south-western of Balkans. Albanian is a language of the extensive Indo-European family and is thus related to a certain degree to almost all other languages of Europe. Albanian is officially spoken in the Republic of Albania and Kosova.

Albanian terms that originate from Indo-European languages . This category should, ideally, contain only other categories. Entries can be categorized here, too, when the proper subcategory is unclear. If you know the exact language from which an entry categorized here is derived, please edit its respective entry.

We know Albanian is Indo-European, but that is all we know. “The Albanian language constitutes its own branch of the Indo-European language family.”. [1] Given that, Albanian is at least distantly related to French, Greek, Russian, English, Farsi, Tajik, and the oodles of other languages in the Indo-European family.

"The Illyric Branch [of Indo European]. Only Albanian (called Shqip by its speakers) belongs to this branch. It has been written in the Latin script since 1909; this replaced a number of writing systems including Greek and Arabic scripts." "There are two dialects that have been diverging for 1000 years. They are mostly mutually intelligible.

22/02/2019 · However, not every European language is an Indo-European language. There are a few outliers, remanents of the cultures that existed before the Indo-European expansion. Here are six European languages that are not part of the Indo-European language family. Finnish. Spoken in: Finland and parts of Sweden Number of Native Speakers: 5.4 million