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Encyclopedia > Tosk Albanian
Tosk
Spoken in: Albania
Total speakers:
Language family: Indo-European
 Albanian
  Tosk
Language codes
ISO 639-1: sq
ISO 639-2: alb (B)  sqi (T)
ISO 639-3: als

Tosk is the southern dialect of the Albanian language. The line of demarcation between Tosk and Gheg (the northern dialect) is the Shkumbin River. Tosk has been the basis of the standard Albanian language. Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... Not to be confused with the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of the sounds of human speech. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Albanian ( IPA ) is a language spoken by about 6 million people, primarily in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia but also in other parts of the Balkans, along the eastern coast of Italy and in Sicily, as well as by a significant diaspora in Scandinavia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Australia... Geg is a northern Albanian dialect. ... The Schumbin River is a river in central Albania. ...


See also

Arvanitic or Arvanitika (Greek: Αρβανίτικα; native name: Arbëríshte; spelled in the Greek-based Arvanitic alphabet) is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population group in Greece. ...

External link

  • http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=als

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Albanian language, alphabets and pronunciation (332 words)
Originally the Tosk dialect was written with the Greek alphabet, while the Gheg dialect was written with the Latin alphabet.
The Latin alphabet for Albanian was standardised in 1909, and a unified literary version of Albanian, based on the Tosk dialect, was established in 1972.
Albanian has also been written with two other scripts: Elbasan and Beitha Kukju, local inventions which appeared during the 18th and 19th centuries but were not widely used.
Albanian Information Center - albanian flag (1326 words)
Tosk is the dialect spoken by most members of the large albanian tourist attractions Albanian immigrant communities albanian money that have recently arrived in these two countries, and in smaller Albanian communities in Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, and United States.
Gheg (or Geg) is spoken in translate english to albanian northern Albania and by the Albanians albanian surnames of Serbia and Montenegro (Southern Montenegro and Southern Serbia), the UN protectorate of Kosovo, albanian last currency as well as those of the Republic of Macedonia.
The albanian basketball Congress on the Orthography of Albanian, held in 1972 with the additional participation of delegates from albanian history the Yugoslav territories of Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro and Calabria (Italy), established albanian personals a unified literary language.
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