Most of the latter alphabets have now been forgotten and are unknown, even to the Albanians themselves. It is the of and and a co-official language in as well as a of, and.Centuries-old communities speaking Albanian dialects can be found scattered in (the ), (the and some communities in, and ), (the ) as well as in. Is a standardised form of spoken Albanian based on the. Their characteristics in the treatment of the native and loanwords from other languages, have led to the conclusion that the dialectal split occurred after of the region (4th century AD) and at the time of the, with the historic boundary between Gheg and Tosk being the Shkumbin which straddled the.

Alternative hypotheses hold that Albanian may have descended from or, other ancient languages spoken farther east than Illyrian.Not enough is known of these languages to completely prove or disprove the various hypotheses.The two main, and which are primarily distinguished by differences, are mutually intelligible, with Gheg spoken in the north and Tosk spoken in the south of the. For more historical and geographical reasons than specifically linguistic ones, there are various modern historians and linguists who believe that the Albanian language may have descended from a southern dialect spoken in much the in.

Albanian is considered to be the descendant of one of the of antiquity.

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