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    The Lab Albanian dialect (Albanian: Labërishtja or Dialekti lab) is a Tosk Albanian dialect associated with the wider definition of the ethnographic region...
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    also be heard as [ɛ, o], in free variation. Albanian dialects Lab Albanian dialect Cham Albanian dialect Arvanitika Arbëresh language Tosk at Ethnologue...
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    The Albanian language is composed of many dialects, divided into two major groups: Gheg and Tosk. The Shkumbin river is roughly the geographical dividing...
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    Albanians using the Latin alphabet in their writings. The oldest surviving attestation of modern Albanian is from 1462. The two main Albanian dialect...
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  • The Chams speak their own dialect of the Albanian language, the Cham Albanian dialect, which is a Southern Tosk Albanian dialect and one of the two most...
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    The Arbanasi dialect (natively: Arbëneshë) is a dialect of Gheg Albanian that is spoken in long-standing diaspora communities of Albanians in Croatia....
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    Cham unrounds Albanian /y/ to /i/. It also fronts the Albanian schwa ë, and merges it with e -- this is the opposite of certain Lab dialects, which tend...
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    high numbers of Albanian diaspora and Albanian communities throughout the Balkans. Although many ethnic Albanians (from within Albania and the wider Balkans...
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  • Prodigal Son and a vocabulary list of the dialect. "Glottolog 4.6 - Istra Albanian". "Albanian language - Dialects". Britannica.com Inc. Retrieved 2 March...
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    Labëria (redirect from Lab Albanians)
    that is roughly situated in southwestern Albania. Its inhabitants are known as Labs (referred to as Albanian: Lab, pl. Lebër, also dial. sing. Lap) and its...
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    dialect of Albanian, which is closer to the Tosk dialect. The vast majority of Kosovo Albanians are Sunni Muslims. There are also Catholic Albanian communities...
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    Standard Albanian gjuhë /ˈɟuhə/). Arbëresh most resembles the varieties of Albanian spoken in the southern region of Albania, notably Lab Albanian, as well...
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    Himarë (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    and Pilur mainly speak the Lab Albanian dialect, a subdialect of Tosk Albanian. A conservative phonological trait of Lab is the lack of palatalization...
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    Albanians in Greece (Albanian: Shqiptarët në Greqi; Greek: Αλβανοί στην Ελλάδα, romanized: Alvanoí stin Elláda) are people of Albanian ethnicity or ancestry...
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  • Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg–Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE). Albanoid and other...
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  • [çimaɾˈʝo̞tika]; Albanian: Dialekti himariot) is a dialect of the Greek language that is mainly spoken by ethnic Greeks in the Himara region of Albania. Despite...
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    Albanian Americans (Albanian: shqiptaro-amerikanët) are Americans of full or partial Albanian ancestry and heritage in the United States. They trace their...
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  • Proto-Albanian phase. Proto-Albanian is reconstructed by way of the comparative method between the Tosk and Gheg dialects and between Albanian and other...
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    The Albanians are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are the main...
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  • ("Latin-Epirotan [Albanian] dictionary"). Shqip(ë)tar and Shqyptar (in northern Albanian dialects) is the contemporary endonym used by Albanians for themselves...
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    The Albanian polyphonic traditional music is performed in two dialects of Albanian: Tosk and Lab. The Tosk musical dialect comprises the Albanian ethnographic...
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    Albania (/ælˈbeɪniə, ɔːl-/ a(w)l-BAY-nee-ə; Albanian: Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë), is...
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    Borsh (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    many of whom have traditionally been Bektashi. In Borsh, the Lab dialect of Albanian is spoken. Borsh borders with Fterra, Qeparo, Piqeras, Kuç, Çorraj...
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    Muslim Albanians. The inhabitance of Dukat speak the Lab dialect of the Albanian language which is a sub-dialect of the Tosk Albanian dialect. "Law nr...
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    speakers in Southern Europe. The four dialects include Tosk Albanian, Gheg Albanian, Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Most Albanians are multi-lingual, speaking many...
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  • Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained many archaic features of the Tosk dialect, on which the Standard Albanian is based. Vaccarizzo Albanian is a dialect of Arbëresh...
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    Proto-Albanian (extinct) Albanian (Modern Albanian) (shqip / gjuha shqipe) (dialect continuum) Gheg Albanian (gegnisht) (Northern Albanian dialect) Arbanasi...
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    The Albanians in Ukraine (Ukrainian: Албанці в Україні (арнаути); Albanian: Shqiptarët në Ukrainë) are an ethnic minority group located mainly in Zaporizhzhia...
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  • Прешевска Долина, Preševska Dolina, Albanian: Lugina e Preshevës). In late antiquity, the contact zone between Late Proto-Albanian and Balkan Latin was located...
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    in Albania mainly during the Ottoman period when the majority of Albanians over time converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. Following the Albanian National...
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