A member of a northern Albanian ethnic group or dialect group, as opposed to Tosks from southern Albania.
From Albanian Geg, possibly from an older root meaning 'northern.' The distinction between Gheg and Tosk dialects is one of the oldest linguistic divisions in Albania.
The Gheg-Tosk split in Albanian has existed for over 1,000 years—it's so old that their spoken dialects are almost mutually unintelligible, making it one of Europe's deepest language divisions.
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