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Tosk dialect

Tosk dialect

9.9
A variety of Albanian spoken mainly in southern Albania and nearby parts of Greece and Italy
  • noun
translation icon : dialecto tosko
  • The official standard of Albanian is largely based on the Tosk dialect.

Examples

  • Linguists study differences between the Tosk dialect and the Gheg dialect of Albanian.

  • Many people in southern Albania speak the Tosk dialect.

  • Many immigrants carried the Tosk dialect with them to new communities in Italy.

  • The Tosk dialect is rich in history.

  • Linguists study differences between the Tosk dialect and the Gheg dialect of Albanian.

  • Many immigrants carried the Tosk dialect with them to new communities in Italy.

  • The official standard of Albanian is largely based on the Tosk dialect.

Synonyms

Tosk
vsTosk dialect
9.9

A type of Albanian that people speak in southern Albania and some parts of Greece and Italy

is the same dialect but expressed as the longer two-word phrase

Surface Forms

Tosk dialect singular
Tosk dialects plural

Morphology

Tosk + dialect

The meaning is directly compositional: 'Tosk' names a southern Albanian variety and 'dialect' denotes a regional language form, so 'Tosk dialect' straightforwardly means the regional Albanian variety associated with Tosk. The pattern 'X dialect' is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun + noun composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Tosk dialect takes its name from the Tosk people of southern Albania, who for many generations spoke this particular way of Albanian. That's why Tosk dialect means 'the southern form of Albanian' and is the form that helped make the country's standard language.