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Tosk Albanian

Tosk is the southern group of dialects of the Albanian language, spoken by the ethnographic group known as Tosks. The line of demarcation between Tosk and Gheg is the Shkumbin River. Tosk is the basis of the standard Albanian language.

Tosk features
• 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==
Northern Tosk
Vowels • Mid sounds e, o can also be heard as , in free variation. == See also ==
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