According to Ethnologue, there are over 40 million L2 speakers

According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali ( 297, 000 speakers ) or Afar ( 99, 200 speakers ) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively.

According to Ethnologue, there were approximately 471, 000 Kipsigis speakers in 2007, with the number increasing.

According to Ethnologue, there are " 200 – 2, 000 " who speak Esperanto as a first language.

According to the 2001 Census of India, Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India ( 74 million ), thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide, and most spoken Dravidian language.

According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken Bantu language after Shona.

According to Ethnologue 16, several of the Malayan varieties they currently list as separate languages, including the Orang Asli varieties of Peninsular Malay, are so closely related to standard Malay that they may prove to be dialects.

According to Ethnologue, there are 200 Afro-Seminole Creole speakers in Bracketville, which makes the town the only one in the country where this creole is still spoken.

According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own.

According to Ethnologue, there are around 300. 000 Pomaks in Turkey.

The Konkani language in Kerala is also sometimes written in the Malayalam script ,< ref name =" Lo ">— According to ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, Konkani (< tt > knn </ tt >) and Goan Konkani (< tt > gom </ tt >) are two dialects.

According to the Ethnologue, there are over 1 billion speakers of English as a first or second language as of 1999.

According to Ethnologue, it has 50, 000 to 100, 000 native signers.

According to the Ethnologue, the Lozi language is " spoken as lingua franca by all East Caprivians.

According to Ethnologue, the Hihue or Hoy dialect is considered the standard ; Haila ’ er, Aoluguya ( Olguya ), Chenba ’ erhu ( Old Bargu ), and Morigele ( Mergel ) dialects also exist.

According to SIL / Ethnologue, there are 200, 000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130, 000 in Benin in 2006.

According to Ethnologue. com, in 2006 there were around 3, 123, 190 hassaniya speakers, distributed in:

According to the Ethnologue 2005 estimate, there are 88 million native speakers of the Punjabi language, which makes it the twelfth most widely spoken language in the world.

According to the Ethnologue database, there were more than three million Hassaniya speakers in 2006, of whom 2. 7 million resided in Mauritania.

According to Ethnologue with figures from 1998, 77 % of Crow people over 66 years old speak the language ; " some " parents and older adults, " few " high school students and " no pre-schoolers " speak Crow.

According to the Indian Government, Chhattisgarhi is an eastern dialect of Hindi, but it is classified as a separate language in Ethnologue.

According to the Ethnologue ( 2009 ), Shenwa has 76, 300 speakers.

According to Ethnologue, as of 2004 there were about 10, 000 speakers of the Northern Ōshima dialect and about 1, 800 speakers of the Southern Ōshima dialect.

According to Ethnologue, Azerbaijani is used as literary language and speakers also use Azerbaijani.

According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 3, 960, 000 Kamba speakers, with the number increasing.

According to Hoxha, Josip Broz Tito had agreed that " Kosovo was Albanian " but that Serbian opposition made transfer an unwise option.

According to the official Albanian census of 1989, 4, 697 ethnic Macedonians reside in Albania.

According to Human Rights Watch, " Ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia tortured, sexually abused road workers after abducting them from the Skopje-Tetovo highway.

According to the Macedonian government there was a presence of Albanian National Liberation Army in the village ; however, the Human Rights Watch investigation on the ground in Ljuboten found no evidence of this and said it was a clear violation by Macedonian forces on human rights.

According to a study by a Greek author, around 80 % of the listed names attributed to the stradioti were of Albanian origin while most of the remaining ones, especially those of officers, were of Greek origin ; a small minority were of South Slavic origin.

According to Armenian medieval historians Movses Khorenatsi, Movses Kaghankatvatsi and Koryun, the Caucasian Albanian ( the Armenian name for the language is Aghvank, the native name of the language is unknown ) alphabet was created by Mesrob Mashtots, the Armenian monk, theologian and translator who is also credited with creating the Armenian and Georgian alphabets.

According to Thomas de Waal, a disciple of Ziya Bunyadov, Farida Mammadova, has “ taken the Albanian theory and used it to push Armenians out of the Caucasus altogether.

According to the Chronicles of Ragusa ( also known as the Chronicles of Dubrovnik ), the fighting lasted four months and thousands of Albanian soldiers lost their lives.

According to official Albanian government sources, he committed suicide on December 17, 1981, after which the entire Shehu clan ( his wife, sons and other of his relatives ) were arrested and imprisoned while Mehmet Shehu himself was denounced as " one of the most dangerous traitors and enemies of his country ".

According to other historians, Lezhë is considered as the site of the League of Lezhë where Skanderbeg united the Albanian princes in the fight against the Ottoman Empire.

According to book by Heinz Loquai, a retired German brigadier general, published in April 2000, the Bulgarian analysis concluded that the goal of the Serbian military was to destroy the Kosovo Liberation Army, and not to expel the entire Albanian population.

According to Fischer, this had been put into effect as early as March 1999 — a month before the start of NATO operations — when Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic had told him that " he would be finished with the ethnic Albanian separatists within a week ".

According to the legally binding verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, federal Army and Serbian police after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 24 March 1999, systematically attacked villages with Albanian population, abused, robbed and killed civilians, ordering them to go to Albania or Montenegro, burning their houses and destroying by their property.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, by March 1999 ( prior to NATO bombing ), more than 200, 000 Albanian civilians were internally displaced, almost 70, 000 Albanians had fled the province to neighboring countries and Montenegro, and a further 100, 000 Yugoslav nationals, mostly Kosovar Albanians, had sought asylum in Western Europe.

According to Loquai, the Bulgarian analysis concluded that the goal of the Serbian military was to destroy the Kosovo Liberation Army, and not to expel the entire Albanian population.

According to the 2001 census results, 53. 76 % of the town ’ s population had Croatian as their mother tongue, 39. 66 % Italian, 3. 65 % Slovene, 0. 97 % Albanian, and others.

According to some legends and ancient sources, such as Movses Kagankatvatsi, ( Albanian ) Arran or Arhan was the name of the legendary founder of Caucasian Albania, who in some versions was son of Noah's son Yafet ( Japheth ) and also, possibly the eponym of the ancient Caucasian Albanians ( Aghvan ), and / or the Iranic tribe known as Alans ( Alani ).

* According to linguist V. Georgiev, the theory of an Illyrian origin for the Albanians is weakened by a lack of any Albanian names before the 12th century and the relative absence of Greek influence that would surely be present if the Albanians inhabited their homeland continuously since ancient times.

According to Georgiev if the Albanians originated near modern-day Albania, the number of Greek loanwords in the Albanian language should be higher.

* According to Georgiev, although some Albanian toponyms descend from Illyrian, Illyrian toponyms from antiquity have not changed according to the usual phonetic laws applying to the evolution of Albanian.

According to Georgiev, Latin loanwords into Albanian show East Balkan Latin ( proto-Romanian ) phonetics, rather than West Balkan ( Dalmatian ) phonetics.

According to the inhabitants of the town they are descended from Albanian settlers that arrived in Corinth earlier than the ones of Xylokeriza.

According to Bernd Fischer, the Division included 1500 Pows, " natives of Kosovo who had served in the Yugoslav army, plus remnants of the failed Albanian army and gendarmerie, volunteers from both old and new Albania.

According to Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis, its popularity in the Morea ( Peloponnese ) was attributed to the influence of the Albanian colony of Hydra and other Albanian settlements in the area.