Tosk

...In addition to Albania itself, there are a few speakers in Yugoslavia (especially the Autonomous Province of Kosovo in the Republic of Serbia), Macedonia, Greece, and even southern Italy including Sicily, Turkey, and the United States, with an estimated population of 3 million. Dialects called Tosk and Geg are spoken in the north and south of the border near the capital Tirana, and each has its own written language, but there is said to be a tendency toward unification in recent years. The northern dialect has five nasal vowels and a distinction between long and short vowels, but the southern dialect does not. ...

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…アルバニア本国のほか，ユーゴスラビア(とくにセルビア共和国内のコソボ自治州など)，マケドニア，ギリシア，さらにはシチリアを含む南イタリア，トルコ，アメリカ合衆国にも少数の話し手をもち，言語人口は推定300万。首都ティラナ付近を境に南北にトスクTosk，ゲグGegとよばれる方言が話され，それぞれに文語をもつが，最近では統一的傾向にあるという。北方言には五つの鼻母音があり，母音に長短の区別があるが，南にはない。…

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