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The GhegAlbanianLanguage is a GhegGroupAlbanianLanguage of Yugoslavia. SIL code: ALS. ISO 639-1: sq. ISO 639-2(B): alb. ISO 639-2(T): sqi. Population: 1,372,750 to 1,800,000 in Yugoslavia (1992). Ethnic Albanians are 90% of Kosovo's 2,000,000 people (1998 Los Angeles Times). Population total all countries 2,000,000 (1980 UBS). Region: Kossovo-Metohija (Kosmet). Also spoken in Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, USA. Alternate names: GEG. Comments: Books are published in Gheg in Yugoslavia. Restrictions on Albanian at Kossovo's university since 1990. Not endangered. Speakers are called 'Kossovar' in Yugoslavia. Official language. Newspapers. Shiptars: Muslim. NT 1869-1990. Also spoken in: Albania. (Language name: ALBANIAN, GHEG.) Population: 300,000 in Albania. Alternate names: GEG, GHEG, SHOPNI, GUEGUE. Dialects: MANDRICA, SHIP (KOSOVE), SCUTARI, ELBASAN-TIRANA. Comments: Speakers may be bilingual in Standard Albanian. Predominantly Muslim except in the northwest around Scutari and the Mirdita, which are RC. NT 1869-1990. See main entry under Yugoslavia. Also spoken in: Bulgaria. (Language name: ALBANIAN, GHEG.) Population: 1,000 in Bulgaria (Newmark). Comments: Not intelligible with Tosk Albanian. NT 1869-1990. Also spoken in: Macedonia. (Language name: ALBANIAN, GHEG.) Population: 242,250 in Macedonia (1992). Alternate names: GEG. Comments: Shiptars: Sunni and Bektashi Muslim. NT 1869-1990.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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