Northeastern Gheg

Northeastern Gheg, sometimes known as Eastern Gheg, is a variant or sub-dialect of Gheg Albanian, the northern dialect, spoken in Northeastern Albania, Kosovo, and Serbia.
History and boundaries
Gheg Albanian is one of two dialectal groups of Albanian, the other being Tosk, with the two being divided by the Shkumbin river in central Albania. Gheg is also the dialect spoken by Albanians in Kosovo, Montenegro and most of Macedonia. The Gheg dialect is divided by four sub-dialects: Central Gheg, Southern Gheg, Northwestern Gheg (or Western Gheg), and Northeastern Gheg (or Eastern Gheg).
Before World War II, there was no official attempt at legislating a unified Albanian literary language; both literary Gheg and literary Tosk was used. The communist regime imposed a Tosk-based unified standard with basis in the Korçë speech, in all of Albania. The same standard was adopted by the Albanians in Yugoslavia, who had until then used the Gheg standard...