Variety of South Slavic spoken by the Gorani people
"Gora language" redirects here. For the language spoken in Nigeria, see Gora language (Nigeria).
"Našinski" redirects here. For dialects spoken in Greece, see Slavic dialects of Greece.
Not to be confused with the Gorani language of Kurdistan.
Gorani
našinski
Native to
Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia
Ethnicity
Gorani
Native speakers
60,000 (2011 census[citation needed])
Language family
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Slavic
South Slavic
Eastern South Slavic
Torlakian
Gorani
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Kosovo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
None
Area where Torlakian dialects are spoken. Number 4 (in southern Kosovo) indicates the Gora dialect area.
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South Slavic languages and dialects
Western South Slavic
Serbo-Croatian
Standard languages
Bosnian
Croatian
Montenegrin
Serbian (Slavonic-Serbian)
Dialects
Shtokavian
(Younger Ikavian
Bunjevac
Slavonian
Šokac
Dubrovnik
Eastern Herzegovinian
Užice
Zeta–Raška
Kosovo–Resava (Smederevo–Vršac)
Šumadija–Vojvodina
Prizren–Timok (Prizren–South Morava
Gorani
Janjevo–Letnica
Svrljig–Zaplanje
Timok–Lužnica))
Chakavian
(Burgenland
Molise)
Kajkavian
Torlakian
(Prizren–South Morava
Gorani
Janjevo–Letnica
Svrljig–Zaplanje
Timok–Lužnica)
Accents
Ekavian
Ijekavian
Ikavian
Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian
Slovene
Dialects
(Prekmurje Slovene
Resian)
Eastern South Slavic
Church Slavonic (Old)
Bulgarian
Dialects
Banat
Torlakian
Meshterski
Macedonian
Dialects
(Western
Southeastern
Northern
Torlakian)
Spoken Macedonian
Standard Macedonian
Transitional dialects
Serbian–Bulgarian–Macedonian
Transitional Bulgarian dialects
Torlakian
Gorani
Croatian–Slovenian
Kajkavian
Bulgarian–Macedonian
Slavic dialects of Greece
Alphabets
Modern
Gaj's Latina
Serbian Cyrillic
Bulgarian Cyrillic
Macedonian Cyrillic
Montenegrin
Slovene
Historical
Bohoričica
Dajnčica
Metelčica
Arebica
Bosnian Cyrillic
Glagolitic
Early Cyrillic
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The Gorani or Goranski, also Našinski ("Our language") language, is the variety of South Slavic spoken by the Gorani people in the border area between Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Albania. It is part of the Torlakian dialect group,[1] which is transitional between Eastern and Western South Slavic languages.[2][3][4][5]
^Browne, Wayles (2002): Serbo-Croat. In: Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett (eds.), The Slavonic Languages. London: Taylor & Francis. [1]. p. 383
^Brown, Keith; Ogilvie, Sarah (2008). Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world. Elsevier. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-08-087774-7. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
^Fisiak, Jacek (1985). "Henrik Birnbaum: Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution". Papers from the 6-th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Current issues in linguistic theory. Benjamins Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 9027235287. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
^Hickey, Raymond (2010). The handbook of language contact, Blackwell handbooks in Linguistics. John Wiley & Sons. p. 620. ISBN 978-1405175807. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
^Brown, Keith; Ogilvie, Sarah (2009). Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. pp. 119–120. ISBN 978-0080877747. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
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