Upper Reka dialect

Upper Reka Albanian dialect
Upper Reka dialect
Mesoni guhen e vet (Learn your language). Poem by Josif Bageri, a native of Upper Reka, 1909
Native to	North Macedonia
Region	Upper Reka
Ethnicity	Macedonian Albanians
Language family	Indo-European Albanian Gheg Southern? Central Upper Reka Albanian dialect
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Albanian
Writing system	Albanian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	aln-MK
Map of Upper Reka

The Upper Reka Albanian dialect is a member of the wider northern Gheg subgroup of the Albanian language spoken by northern Albanians.^[1] Speakers of the dialect are mainly located within the territory of the sub-region of Upper Reka in north-western North Macedonia. Due to the geographical isolation of the Upper Reka region, the Upper Reka dialect also developed linguistic peculiarities that differentiate it from other varieties of Albanian. Within the Gheg dialects, the Upper Reka dialect is classified as a Central Gheg dialect,^[2] along with the dialects of the Kruja, Mati and Dibra regions.