• Rhotacism:
Proto-Albanian becomes (e.g. "sand") • Tosk dialects preserve the consonant sequences , and which are assimilated to , and in
Gheg. • Proto-Albanian becomes . • Nasal vowels: There is a lack of nasal vowels in Tosk (e.g. "eye") and Late Proto-Albanian plus a nasal becomes (e.g. "nine"). • e-vowel: The becomes in some varieties of some words. • ë-vowel: The may have several pronunciations depending on dialect: the
ë is more backed in
Labërisht dialects like that of
Vuno, where "foal" is ). Final drops in many Tosk dialects and lengthens the preceding vowel. • y-vowel: The vowel often derounds to in Labërisht, Çam,
Arvanitika, and
Arbëresh (e.g. "two" becomes ). • dh and ll: These sounds may interchange in some words in some varieties. • h: This may drop in any position in some dialects. • gl/kl: Some varieties of Çam, Arberësh, and Arvanitika retain and in place of and (e.g. "tongue" is in Çam and Siculo-Arberësh, and in Arvanitika; for "milk" in Arbëresh). • rr: becomes in some varieties. ==Northern Tosk==