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Where is Northern Tosk Albanian spoken?

Northern Tosk Albanian (Toskë) is an Indo-European language, spoken in Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and 2 more. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Northern Tosk Albanian is spoken

Northern Tosk Albanian is spoken in 6 countries: Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and 2 more. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Albania100%3,107,100
Kosovo92%1,818,923
Serbia19%1,263,920
North Macedonia25%533,905
Montenegro7.9%47,388
GreeceNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Northern Tosk Albanian has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Northern Tosk Albanian?

Wikidata gives about 3 million speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Northern Tosk Albanian sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Northern Tosk Albanian as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Albanian
  4. Albanian-Tosk
  5. Northern Tosk Albanian

More about Northern Tosk Albanian

Codes: ISO 639-3 als, Glottolog tosk1239. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Northern Tosk Albanian

Where is Northern Tosk Albanian spoken?

Northern Tosk Albanian is spoken in Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and 2 more. Unicode CLDR puts it at 100% of the population of Albania, which is about 3,107,100 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Northern Tosk Albanian?

Wikidata gives about 3 million speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Northern Tosk Albanian in?

Glottolog places Northern Tosk Albanian in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Albanian and Albanian-Tosk.

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