Albanian is natively spoken by approximately 4.9 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo, with significant communities in North Macedonia, Montenegro, and the diaspora in Italy, Greece, and the United States. The language has a rich history that traces back to the ancient Illyrians and is a crucial part of Albanian identity and culture, known for its folklore, traditional music, and epic poetry. Written in the Latin alphabet, Albanian grammar features a complex system of declensions and conjugations, a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, and distinct definite and indefinite noun forms.