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The map does not imply that the Albanian language is the majority or the only spoken language in these areas. The Albanian language is composed of many dialects, divided into two major groups: Gheg and Tosk. [1] The Shkumbin river is roughly the geographical dividing line, with Gheg spoken north of the Shkumbin and Tosk south of it.
The Albanian language has two distinct dialects, Tosk which is spoken in the south, and Gheg spoken in the north. [53] Standard Albanian is based on the Tosk dialect. The Shkumbin River is the rough dividing line between the two dialects. [54] Gheg is divided into four sub-dialects: Northwest Gheg, Northeast Gheg, Central Gheg and Southern Gheg.
Description. Albanian language map en.svg. 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. Italiano: Mappa delle aree linguistiche gheghe e tosche in ...
e. Albania is an ethnically homogeneous country, where the overwhelming majority of the population speaks Albanian, which is also the official language. It has two distinct dialects: Tosk, spoken in the south, and Gheg, spoken in the north. However, many Albanians can also speak foreign languages as Italian, Greek, French, German, and English ...
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.
Albanoid or Albanic is a branch or subfamily of the Indo-European (IE) languages, of which Albanian language varieties are the only surviving representatives. In current classifications of the IE language family, Albanian is grouped in the same IE branch with Messapic, an ancient extinct language of Balkan provenance that is preserved in about ...
The origin of the Albanians has been the subject of historical, linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi occurred in the 2nd century AD by Ptolemy describing an Illyrian tribe who lived around present-day central Albania. [1][2] The first attestation of medieval Albanians as an ethnic group is in ...
Tosk (Albanian definite form: toskërishtja) is the southern group of dialects of the Albanian language, spoken by the ethnographic group known as Tosks. The line of demarcation between Tosk and Gheg (the northern variety) is the Shkumbin River. Tosk is the basis of the standard Albanian language. Major Tosk-speaking groups include the Myzeqars ...