Alphabet and Character Frequency: Albanian (Shqip)
On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Albanian language as well as information on the Albanian alphabet (the letters used in the Albanian language).
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Letter Frequencies of the language Albanian
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Albanian language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Albanian text with 3,470,343 characters (562,365 words), 2,821,968 characters were used for the counting. The text consists of a good mix of different literary genres. Of course, if another text was used as a basis, the result would be slightly different.
The first list is sorted alphabetically according to the letters, the second list by the frequencies of the letters. Accordingly, the letters E, I and T are the most frequent letters in the Albanian language.
Letter | Frequency |
A | 7.56 % |
B | 1.08 % |
C | 0.63 % |
Ç | 0.15 % |
D | 3.26 % |
E | 9.72 % |
Ë | 7.74 % |
F | 0.94 % |
G | 1.49 % |
H | 4.19 % |
I | 9.10 % |
J | 2.77 % |
K | 3.22 % |
L | 2.99 % |
M | 3.48 % |
N | 6.61 % |
O | 3.93 % |
P | 2.77 % |
Q | 0.80 % |
R | 7.28 % |
S | 5.49 % |
T | 8.37 % |
U | 3.44 % |
V | 1.44 % |
X | 0.09 % |
Y | 0.56 % |
Z | 0.81 % |
Letter | Frequency |
E | 9.72 % |
I | 9.10 % |
T | 8.37 % |
Ë | 7.74 % |
A | 7.56 % |
R | 7.28 % |
N | 6.61 % |
S | 5.49 % |
H | 4.19 % |
O | 3.93 % |
M | 3.48 % |
U | 3.44 % |
D | 3.26 % |
K | 3.22 % |
L | 2.99 % |
J | 2.77 % |
P | 2.77 % |
G | 1.49 % |
V | 1.44 % |
B | 1.08 % |
F | 0.94 % |
Z | 0.81 % |
Q | 0.80 % |
C | 0.63 % |
Y | 0.56 % |
Ç | 0.15 % |
X | 0.09 % |
Lists of Albanian syllable frequencies can be found here.
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The Albanian Alphabet
Here you can see all letters that occur in the Albanian alphabet. The headings of each column are showing all basic letters of the Latin alphabet in bold. In the first row of the table, there are the letters from the Latin alphabet, which are also used in Albanian. Underneath, all in Albanian occurring forms derived from the basic Latin letters are listed.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
Ç | Ë |
The Albanian alphabet knows 27 letters. It contains of 25 basic letters of the Latin alphabet (all letters except W) and is supplemented by the 2 letters Ç and Ë. The combinations (digraphs) DH, GJ, LL, NJ, RR, SH, TH, XH and ZH are usually treated inseparably as a single letter (for example, when sorting a list alphabetically such as in dictionaries).