Albanian

Albanian is a language of the Indo-European family, but it is classified as a language isolate. The language has approximately seven million speakers. It is official in both Albania and Kosovo.

Like Bulgarian, Romanian and Swedish, Albanian has postnominal articles. For example, mal (mountain) has the form mali (the mountain) and zog (bird) has the form zogu (the bird).

The Albanian language has seven vowels. They include the five vowels of Spanish as well as the schwa and the high front rounded vowel, which is written y. The schwa in Albanian has a great deal of variability from retracted to advanced articulation.

Relatively rare among languages, Albanian has voiced and voiceless interdental fricatives. They are spelled dh and th. Albanian also has an alveolar tap and alveolar trill as in Spanish.

Though a language isolate, Albanian is an Indo-European language. It has interdental fricatives and postnominal articles. Albanian has a relatively free word order, but the most common is SVO.