Indo-European · ISO 639-3 aln
Gheg Albanian Language
Gheg Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 4.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Gheg Albanian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Gheg Albanian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Albanian
- Gheg Albanian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Gheg Albanian language
Gheg Albanian is spoken by about 4.1 million people, which makes it the 204th most spoken language in the world — just behind Southern Uzbek (4.2 million) and ahead of Bukit Malay (4.1 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Albanian group within the Albanian branch.
Where is Gheg Albanian spoken?
Gheg Albanian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Serbia (4.1 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Serbia — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Gheg Albanian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gheg Albanian is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Albanian and Tosk Albanian.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 aln.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.