Language code: alb
Technical information about ISO 639 language code alb
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The table below provides technical details for the Albanian language, designated by the alb code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Albanian Native Shqip |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | GhegTosk |
| Related languages | None – Albanian constitutes its own unique branch of the Indo-European family |
| Key facts | Earliest known Albanian text dates to 1462The modern standard is based mainly on the Tosk dialectIt has preserved many archaic Indo-European features despite heavy lexical borrowing from Latin, Slavic, Turkish and GreekVocabulary contains inherited words that have no clear cognates in any other living languageUses the Latin script with 36 letters, each representing a single sound. |
| Sample phrase | Përshëndetje, si jeni? |
| Character encodings | |
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The Albanian language, identified by the code alb, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Albanian language: alb for bibliographic purposes and sqi for terminology uses.
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