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    Albanian is a unique Indo-European language spoken by Albanians in the Balkans and in the Albanian diaspora around the world. With around 7.5 million speakers, Albanian has no close relation to other languages. The first known document in Albanian was recorded in 1462. There are large Albanian communities in countries like the United States, Italy, and Germany due to immigration and diaspora. Albanian consists of two main dialects, Gheg and Tosk, which are mutually intelligible.

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    Albanian is a unique Indo-European language spoken by Albanians in the Balkans and in the Albanian diaspora around the world. With around 7.5 million speakers, Albanian has no close relation to other languages. The first known document in Albanian was recorded in 1462. There are large Albanian communities in countries like the United States, Italy, and Germany due to immigration and diaspora. Albanian consists of two main dialects, Gheg and Tosk, which are mutually intelligible.

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    Albanian is a unique Indo-European language spoken by Albanians in the Balkans and in the Albanian diaspora around the world. With around 7.5 million speakers, Albanian has no close relation to other languages. The first known document in Albanian was recorded in 1462. There are large Albanian communities in countries like the United States, Italy, and Germany due to immigration and diaspora. Albanian consists of two main dialects, Gheg and Tosk, which are mutually intelligible.

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    Albanian is a unique Indo-European language spoken by Albanians in the Balkans and in the Albanian diaspora around the world. With around 7.5 million speakers, Albanian has no close relation to other languages. The first known document in Albanian was recorded in 1462. There are large Albanian communities in countries like the United States, Italy, and Germany due to immigration and diaspora. Albanian consists of two main dialects, Gheg and Tosk, which are mutually intelligible.

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    Albanian 

    (/ælˈbeɪniən/; shq The Albanian


    ip [ʃc͡çip] or gjuha
    language, is a THE FIRST EVIDENCES
    shqipe [ɟ͡ʝuha ˈʃc͡çipɛ]) is OF THE ALBANIAN
    an Indo-European unique one, it has LANGUAGE
    language spoken by
    the Albanians in
    no similarity with
    the Balkans and other languages.
    the Albanian diaspora in
    the Americas, Europe and 
    Oceania.

    With about 7.5


    million speakers, it
    comprises an
    independent branch
    within the Indo-
    European languages
    and is not closely
    related to any other
    language.

     The first known


    document in
    Albanian is the
    “Baptism
    Formula”
    recorded in 1462
    by Pal Engjëlli
    (Paulus Angelus).
    Americas
    The first written mention
    There are large numbers of Albanian Albanian is the third most spoken
    of the Albanian language speakers in the United
    was on 14 July 1284 States, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay an language in Italy. This is due to a
    in Dubrovnik "I heard a d Canada. Some of the first ethnic substantial Albanian immigration to
    Albanians to arrive in the United Italy. Italy has a historical Albanian
    voice shouting on the States were Arbëreshë. Arbëreshe
    mountainside in the have a strong sense of identity, and minority of about 500,000, scattered
    Albanian language" ( are unique in that they speak an across southern Italy, known
    archaic dialect of Tosk as Arbëreshë. Approximately 1 million
    Albanian called Arbëreshë.
    Albanians from Kosovo are dispersed
    throughout Germany, Switzerland and 
    Austria.

    Standard Albanian is a
    standardised form of spoken
    Albanian based on the Tosk The two main Albanian
    dialect. It is the official dialects, Gheg and Tosk, are
    language of Albania and Kosov primarily distinguished
    o and a co-official language by phonological differences,
    in North Macedonia as well as and are mutually
    a minority intelligible, with Gheg
    language of Italy, Montenegro,  spoken to the north and
    Romania and Serbia. Tosk spoken to the south of
    the Shkumbin river.

    Albanian is considered
    an isolate within the
    Indo-European language
    family; no other
    language has been
    conclusively linked to
    its branch.

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