1A member of one of the main ethnic groups of Albania, living mainly in the south of the country.
托斯克人（阿尔巴尼亚的主要民族之一，主要生活于该国南部）
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Let's not forget that the southern Albanians, the Tosks, are related to Hellenes from the anthropological and national point of view.
Although dialect and cultural differences between the Ghegs and Tosks can be substantial, both sides identify strongly with the common national and ethnic culture.
In the case of Albania, this meant the Tosks of south Albania and the Ghegs of north Albania.
According to respondents the Tosks from Southern Albania are better educated and highly cultured.
These two groups are separated from one another by the Shkumbin River which runs east and west, separating the Ghegs and the Tosks north and south respectively.
The River Shkumbi forms the rough border between the two groups, with the Ghegs occupying the area to the north and the Tosks the area to the south.
The Gegs and Tosks use distinct dialects and there are also linguistic variations within subgroups.
Anyway, if Tosks do have them, I'd like to learn about them.
After 1945, most political leaders were Tosks, and the government tried to make the Tosk dialect the standard.
Under Communism, southern Tosks had always been well represented in the government and had often dominated it.
Prior to 1920, most of the Albanians who migrated to the United States were Orthodox Tosks from the city of Korce in southern Albania.
The Ghegs live in the northern half of the country, and the Tosks live in the south.
Ghegs were twice as likely to self-identify as compared to Tosks, this probably being a consequence of the decades long alienation of Ghegs by the former communist regime.
Both Ghegs and Tosks speak the same language but pronounce it with some difference.
2mass nounThe dialect of Albanian spoken by the Tosk, with about 4 million speakers, forming the basis for standard Albanian.
托斯克语（托斯克人所说的方言，有400万的使用者，构成标准阿尔巴尼亚语的基础）。比较GHEG
Compare with Gheg
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Today, Albanian is spoken in two major dialects (with many subdialects) in Albania and in neighboring Kosova - Tosk (about two-thirds of the population) and Gheg (the remaining one-third).
adjectivetɒsk
Relating to the Tosk or their dialect.
（与）托斯克人（有关）的；（与）托斯克语（有关）的
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In addition to the standard Albanian terms (mostly similar to the Tosk dialect), Elsie often provides us with the variant forms of Gegerishte (the Gheg dialect of northern Albania).
This Standard Albanian is based about 80 percent on Tosk dialect forms, reflecting the structure of political power at that time in communist Albania.
After 1945, most political leaders were Tosks, and the government tried to make the Tosk dialect the standard.
In 1952, a standardized Albanian language was adopted, which is a mixture of Gheg and Tosk but with a prevailing Tosk element.
Hence, Albanian nationalist intellectuals stressed linguistic nationalism in their attempts to build an Albanian national consciousness, an effort made difficult because of the Gheg / Tosk division.