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Language code: sqi

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sqi

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The table below provides technical details for the Albanian language, designated by the sqi code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sqi (Terminology)

Standard

ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3

Name

Official

Albanian

Native

Shqip

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
GhegTosk
Related languages
Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian)Arvanitika
Key facts
Albanian forms a unique, independent branch of the Indo-European familyThe modern 36-letter Latin alphabet was unified at the 1908 Congress of ManastirIt retains an admirative mood that can express surprise or ironyMany everyday words lack clear cognates in other living languages, pointing to an ancient substrateThe lexicon shows heavy borrowing from Latin, Greek, Slavic, Turkish and Italian owing to long periods of contact
Sample phrase

Përshëndetje, si jeni?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-16, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Albanian language, identified by the code sqi, 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: sqi for terminology purposes and alb for bibliographic uses.

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