Second languages spoken in Kosovo: An analysis
Second languages spoken in Kosovo: An analysis

Summary/Abstract: The object of this study is to identify the second languages that are mostly spoken in Kosovo. This study draws on the hypothesis that the second most spoken languages in Kosovo are English, Serbian, and German. We have tried to prove this hypothesis through the statistical method. The study herein presented is part of a larger study that uses a corpus-based approach. The corpus contains only spoken texts, but in addition to this, the subjects involved, after being interviewed, also completed a survey about the second language(s) they spoke. In the survey, they provided the following data: place of birth, place of residence, age, gender, profession, education, mother tongue, and foreign languages. For data analysis and interpretation, we have used this survey to extract statistics for the second languages they speak and other data such as their profession and age group. We have also extracted statistics about the second languages spoken in each municipality in Kosovo. From these statistics, we came to the conclusion that most subjects speak Albanian as their mother tongue, while the second languages mostly used are English, Serbian, and German. Other spoken second languages include Slovenian, Russian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Polish, Bulgarian, Turkish, French, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Latin, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Hungarian, Romani, and Greek.

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