Gheg or Geg (Gheg Albanian: gegnisht, Standard Albanian: gegërisht) is one of the two major varieties of Albanian, the other being Tosk. The geographic...

The Albanian language is composed of many dialects, divided into two major groups: Gheg and Tosk. The Shkumbin river is roughly the geographical dividing...

knowledge of certain foreign languages among Albanian writers. The earliest written Albanian records come from the Gheg area in makeshift spellings based...

The Ghegs (also spelled as Gegs; Albanian: Gegët) are one of two major dialectal subgroups of Albanians (the other being the Tosks) They are also differentiated...

Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg–Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE). Albanoid and other...

Albania (/ælˈbeɪniə, ɔːl-/ a(w)l-BAY-nee-ə; Albanian: Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë), is...

(natively: Arbëneshë) is a dialect of Gheg Albanian that is spoken in long-standing diaspora communities of Albanians in Croatia. Its speakers originated...

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...

Shqiptar (Albanian definite form: Shqip(ë)tari; Gheg Albanian: Shqyptar/-i; plural: Shqiptarë/-t, Shqyptarë/-t) is an Albanian ethnonym (endonym), by which...

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...

(also Gheg Albanian: Kanû/-ja, other names include Albanian: doke, zakon, venom, usull, itifatk, adet, sharte, udhë, rrugë) is a set of Albanian traditional...

Zonja e Dheut (also Gheg Albanian: Zôja e Dheut) is the Albanian name for the Earth Goddess. In Albanian folk beliefs, earth is the object of a special...

Albanian after her: e premte, premtja (Gheg Albanian: e prende, prendja). In Albanian mythology Prende appears as the daughter of Zojz, the Albanian sky...

Upper Reka Albanian dialect is a member of the wider northern Albanian Gheg dialect subgroup of the Albanian language spoken by northern Albanians. Speakers...

Istrian Albanian was a Gheg variety of the Albanian language, spoken in the village of Katun in the area of Poreč, Istria.[citation needed][failed verification]...

Lakror (Gheg Albanian: Laknor, Arbëreshë Albanian: Lakruar) is a traditional and common regional Albanian pie dish of Albania made with different fillings...

of Albanian ethnic origin. They are traditional speakers of the Arbanasi dialect of Gheg Albanian. Their name is an obsolete way to say Albanians in Croatian...

Kosovars (Albanian: Kosovarët), constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo. Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub-group of Ghegs, who inhabit...

the Albanians, during the Middle Ages, referred to their country as Arbëria (Gheg Albanian: Arbënia) and called themselves Arbëreshë (Gheg Albanian: Arbëneshë)...

(/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə, Albanian pronunciation: [tiˈɾana]; Gheg Albanian: Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre...

ancient and medieval Albanians used by Albanians. The Albanian language was referred to as Arbërisht (Gheg Albanian: Arbënisht). While the country was called...

The first women's association in Albania was founded in 1909. Albanian women from the northern Gheg region resided within a conservative and patriarchal...

dhampir is an Albanian word from which it evolved through Albanian sound changes. Superficially it seems to derive from the Gheg Albanian words dhamb 'tooth'...

IE languages. Furthermore, intense Greek–Albanian contacts certainly have occurred thereafter. Albanoid Proto-Albanian Common Albanian Gheg Albanian (Northern...

etymology is unclear. In Albanian the words lu(v)gat and dhampir are used; the latter seems to be derived from the Gheg Albanian words dham 'tooth' and...

The Albanians, during the Middle Ages, referred to their country as Arbëria (Gheg Albanian: Arbënia) and called themselves Arbëreshë (Gheg Albanian: Arbëneshë)...

The Albanian alphabet (Albanian: alfabeti shqip) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters: Note:...

Arbërisht) is the variety of Albanian spoken by the Arbëreshë people of Italy. It is derived from the Albanian Tosk spoken in Albania, in Epirus and is also...

be a diagnostic feature separating Southern (Tosk) Albanian from Northern (Gheg) Albanian, Albanian linguists Dilo Sheper and Gjinari have reported that...

of the Albanian is Albanianism" (Albanian: feja e shqiptarit është shqiptaria or in Gheg Albanian: Feja e shqyptarit asht shqyptarija). Albanian national...