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The Albanian Language
An independent branch of the Indo-European family with no close living relative, written in a 36-letter Latin…
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Albanian has two main ways of speaking. North of the Shkumbin river people speak Gheg; south of it they speak Tosk. They differ in sounds, some grammar and some words. The written standard used in schools is based mostly on Tosk.
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Albanian has two main ways of speaking. North of the Shkumbin river people speak Gheg; south of it they speak Tosk. They differ in sounds, some grammar and some words. The written standard used in schools is based mostly on Tosk.
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The Shkumbin
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Gheg Albanian — English Wikipedia
· consulté le 03 Sep 2026
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Wikidata item Q181037
· consulté le 03 Sep 2026
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