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English: Map of the Gheg- and Tosk-speaking areas in Southern Europe. The internal subdivision in the Northern and Central Balkan countries are from the map in Gjinari 1988, while the speaking areas of Italy and Greece are from Eslie 2009.
The Article 14 of the Albanian Constitution states that "The official language in the Republic of Albania is Albanian." [2] According to the 2011 population census, 2,765,610, 98.767% of the population declared Albanian as their mother tongue ("mother tongue is defined as the first or main language spoken at home during childhood").
A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
The language is spoken by approximately 6 million people in the Balkans, primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. [1] However, due to old communities in Italy and the large Albanian diaspora, the worldwide total of speakers is much higher than in Southern Europe and numbers approximately 7.5 million.
Albania has one of Europe's longest histories of viticulture. [221] Today's region was one of the few places where vine was naturally grown during the ice age. The oldest found seeds in the region are 4,000 to 6,000 years old. [222] In 2009, the nation produced an estimated 17,500 tonnes of wine. [223]
Greek Albanian Armenian ... Template: Linguistic map of Europe. 2 languages ...
Map illustrating the various dialects of the Albanian language in Southern Europe. The Albanian language is the official language of Albania. It has two distinct dialects, Tosk, spoken in the south, and Gheg, spoken in the north. The Shkumbin river is the rough dividing line between the two dialects. The language is spoken primarily in Greece ...
English: Dialects of the Albanian language. The map does not indicate where the language is majority or minority and shows "Cham" & "Arvanitika" as dialects, but in Greece the "Τσάμηδες" are the muslim Albanians from Epirus, "Αρβανίτες" the christian greeks who speek arvanitika from central Greece, and "Aλβανοί" the citizens of Albania.