Indo-European · ISO 639-3 als
Tosk Albanian Language Schwyzertüütsch
Tosk Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 3.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Tosk Albanian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tosk Albanian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Albanian
- Albanian-Tosk
- Tosk Albanian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Tosk Albanian language
Tosk Albanian (Schwyzertüütsch) is spoken by about 3.0 million people, which makes it the 246th most spoken language in the world — just behind Abron (3.0 million) and ahead of Baoulé (3.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Albanian-Tosk group within the Albanian branch.
Where is Tosk Albanian spoken?
Tosk Albanian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Albania (1.8 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Albania — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Tosk Albanian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Tosk Albanian is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Albanian and Gheg Albanian.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 als.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.