Definition of Tosk dialect

1. Noun. The dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy.

Exact synonyms: Tosk
Generic synonyms: Albanian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tosk Dialect

Torricellian barometer
Torrid Zone
Torschlusspanik
Torsten Sjogren's syndrome
Tortricidae
Torulopsis
Torwali
Torx head
Tory
Torygraph
Toryism
Toryisms
Toscana
Toscanini
Tosk
Tosk dialect (current term)
Totenkopf
Totten trust
Tottenham
Tottori
Toulon
Toulouse
Toulouse-Lautrec
Tour
Tour de France
Tourette
Tourette's
Tourette's disease
Tourette's disorder
Tourette's syndrome

Literary usage of Tosk dialect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The Italian and Sicilian Albanians are of Tosk descent, and many of them still speak a variation of the Tosk dialect. There are also several Albanian ..."

2. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"... expressing their thoughts , with clearness even in the corrupt Tosk dialect which they .. -I ' habitually used. The descendants of Pericles and Demos- ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1880)
"Albanian of the Tosk dialect is also in use by the Mussulman Albanians, but even to the north of the ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1880)
"Albanian of the Tosk dialect is also in use by the Mussulman Albanians, but even to the north of the ..."

5. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"Among the dirges sung for a youth killed in battle the following, which is in the Tosk dialect, is one of the oldest and best known. ..."

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