Locale Sq Al
Use when working with the Albanian (Albania) locale (`sq-AL`) — its endonym Shqip (Shqipëri), Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Albanian (Albania) locale — endonym Shqip (Shqipëri), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
sq-AL - ISO 639-1:
sq - ISO 639-3:
sqi - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: AL (Albania)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 2,800,000
- L2 (additional): 200,000
- L1+L2 (total): 3,000,000
Base locale
This is a regional variant of Locale Sq 001 (Albanian), the base/macro locale for this language.
Pluralization
CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).
- one —
n = 1(e.g. 1) - other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)
See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.
Translating into this locale
Apply Locale Sq 001 with the conventions of Albania.
- Formats: lek (
LorALL); dates17.10.2026; 24-hour clock; decimal comma. - Variants: Albanian in Kosovo and North Macedonia uses the same standard with euro or denar; keep country-specific currency and institutions separate.
- Terminology: use Albanian EU-accession terminology for legal and administrative content.
Common pitfalls
- Using Gheg dialect forms in written standard content.
- Using the euro for Albania without checking.
- The general pitfalls in Locale Sq 001 also apply.
Learn more
- Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)