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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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    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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    disputed Languages portal Abetare Arbëresh language Arvanitika Gheg Albanian Illyrian language IPA/Albanian Messapic language Thraco-Illyrian Tosk Albanian Rusakov...
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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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    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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    distinct dialects: Tosk, spoken in the south, and Gheg, spoken in the north. However, many Albanians can also speak foreign languages as Italian, Greek...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained many archaic features of the Tosk dialect, on which the Standard Albanian is based. Vaccarizzo Albanian is a dialect...
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    Albanoid (redirect from Albanoid language)
    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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    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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    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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  • 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:...
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    Voiced glottal fricative (category Articles containing Tosk Albanian-language text)
    Riverin-Coutlée, Josiane; Kapia, Enkeleida; Nichols, Stephen (n.d.). "Northern Tosk Albanian". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 53 (3): 1122–1144...
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  • I Verbti (category Articles containing Tosk Albanian-language text)
    adjectival noun: Gheg Albanian: i verb(ë)t-i "the blind one", from the adjective i verbët "blind", Tosk Albanian: i verbër. The Albanian adjective verbër ~...
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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 the...
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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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    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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    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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  • Voiced labial–velar approximant (category Articles containing Tosk Albanian-language text)
    labial–velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. It is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨w⟩ in the English...
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    Principality of Arbanon (category Articles containing Tosk Albanian-language text)
    Arbanon (Old Albanian: Arbën in Old Gheg, Arbër in Old Tosk; Latin: Arbanum) was a medieval principality in present-day Albania, ruled by the native Progoni...
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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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    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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    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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    include Tosk Albanian, Gheg Albanian, Arbëresh and Arvanitika. Most Albanians are multi-lingual, speaking many regional and foreign languages such as...
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    full New Testament in the Tosk form of Albanian in 1827, in both a full volume and a split two-volume set because "the Albanians had the custom of carrying...
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    the Albanian language and derives from the Tosk Albanian spoken in central-southern Albania and Epirus. In Italy the Albanian Arbëresh language is protected...
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