Tosk Albanian language

Tosk
toskë, toskërisht
Region	Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey
Native speakers	1.8 million (2011 census)
Language family	Indo-European Albanian Tosk
Writing system	Albanian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	tosk1239
Linguasphere	55-AAA-aca to 55-AAA-ace
A map showing Tosk speakers in Red and Orange (19th century)

Tosk (Albanian: toskë/toskërisht) is the southern dialect group of the Albanian language, spoken by the ethnographic group known as Tosks. The line of demarcation between Tosk and Gheg (the northern dialect) is the Shkumbin River. Tosk is the basis of the standard Albanian language.

Major Tosk-speaking groups include the Myzeqars of Myzeqe, Labs of Labëria and Chams of Çamëria. The Arvanites of Greece and Arbëreshë of Italy are descendants of Tosk-speaking settlers, as are the original inhabitants of Mandritsa in Bulgaria. In the Republic of Macedonia, there were approximately 3000 speakers in the early 1980s.