Language · Indo-European
Albanian
shqip – its own name
Official or co-official in 3 countries. Listed in 7 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 6.8 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Where it is spoken
- Official 1
- Co-official 2
- Widely used 1
- Minority 3
Official
- Albania 100% 3.1 million
Co-official
- Kosovo 92% 1.8 million
-
North Macedonia
25%
534 thousand
Official nationwide since 2019 (with some limits); highlighted are municipalities with an Albanian majority, using the municipal division of the map data – to be verified.
Widely used
- Serbia 19% 1.3 million
Minority
- Montenegro 7.9% 47 thousand
- Türkiye <0.1% 18 thousand
- Greece <0.1% 10 thousand