What people call themselves “Albano?”

There’s a very nice man who works at my local grocery store, doesn’t speak a lick on English. He understands enough to say where he’s from, and I want to thank him in a way he understands and is familiar with, because I don’t think he knows how to say much besides Albano, at least from what I can determine. I tried asking him something in Albanian, because I thought he was staying an English corruption of Albanian, but he did not seem to understand what I was saying. So, anyone got any idea?