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    Tosk (Albanian definite form: toskërishtja) is the southern group of dialects of the Albanian language, spoken by the ethnographic group known as Tosks...
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    an archaic dialect of Tosk Albanian called Arbëresh. In the United States and Canada, there are approximately 250,000 Albanian speakers. It is primarily...
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    Gheg or Geg (Gheg Albanian: gegnisht, Standard Albanian: gegërisht) is one of the two major varieties of Albanian, the other being Tosk. The geographic...
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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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    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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  • Tosks (Albanian: Toskët) are one of two major dialectal subgroups of Albanians (the other being the Ghegs) differentiated by their cultural, linguistic...
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    between Tosk Albanian and Common Romanian. Despite the similarities, genetically they are only distantly related Indo-European languages, as Albanian is the...
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  • of the Albanian language, including the declension of nouns and adjectives, and the conjugation of verbs. It refers to the Tosk-based Albanian standard...
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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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    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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    Dhërmi (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    The official Albanian name "Dhërmi" is mainly used by those inhabitants and seasonal workers who use either the Tosk or Gheg Albanian dialect. Many of...
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    The Cham Albanian dialect (Albanian: Çamërisht, Dialekti çam), also called Cham Tosk or Arvanitika, is the dialect of the Albanian language spoken by...
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    The Albanian Kingdom (Tosk Albanian: Mbretëria Shqiptare) was the official name of Albania between 1928 and 1939. Albania was declared a monarchy by the...
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  • 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...
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  • not Albanians. Arvanitika is part of the Tosk dialect group of Albanian, and as such closely related to the varieties spoken across southern Albania. It...
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    depicting the Albanian population in green Albanian ethno-linguistic territories Arbëresh derives from the Tosk dialect spoken in southern Albania, and is spoken...
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  • 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 conservative...
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  • Ghegs (category Articles containing Albanian-language text)
    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...
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    Kostandin Kristoforidhi (category Articles containing Albanian-language text)
    dialect in 1872. He also provided a translation in Tosk Albanian in 1879 thereby improving the 1823 tosk version of Vangjel Meksi. By providing translation...
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    taught in public schools. The Albanian language is the official language of Albania. It has two distinct dialects, Tosk, spoken in the south, and Gheg...
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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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    Shkumbin River roughly demarcates the Albanian language between Gheg and Tosk dialects. Christianity in Albania was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop...
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    Albanoid (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    Gramsh Tosk Albanian (Southern Albanian dialect) Northern Tosk (basis of Standard Modern Albanian but not identical) Northeastern Tosk Mandritsa Tosk (in...
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    Struga Municipality (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    have practical knowledge of Tosk Albanian as a third language. Local Macedonians who learn Albanian, speak the Tosk Albanian dialect. On 26 November 2019...
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  • Ora (mythology) (category Albanian mythology)
    Northern Albanian Ora, along with the Zana, can be found within the folk beliefs and oral epics of the Gheg Albanians. Folk beliefs of the Southern Tosk Albanians...
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    Prende (category Articles containing Tosk Albanian-language text)
    mother of Virgin Mary, and was called "Saint Veneranda" (Tosk Albanian: ShënePremte or Gheg Albanian: Shën Prende), later also associated with Greek Paraskevi...
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  • Karamanlidika. Tosk Albanian was often written using the Greek alphabet, starting in about 1500. The printing press at Moschopolis published several Albanian texts...
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  • Voiced labial–velar approximant (category Articles containing Tosk Albanian-language text)
    The voiced labial–velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. It is the sound denoted by the...
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    long-standing period of Tosk Albanian–Eastern South Slavic bilingualism, or at least contact, resulting from the Tosk Albanian rhotacism -n- into -r- and...
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