Albanian forms its own separate branch of the Indo-European family, with no close relatives among neighbouring languages. It is the official language of Albania and Kosovo and is also spoken by communities in North Macedonia, Montenegro, southern Italy and Greece. Two main dialects divide the language: Gheg in the north and Tosk in the south, and the modern standard, fixed in 1972, is based largely on Tosk. Speaker estimates generally fall between six and seven million worldwide. Albanian is written in the Latin alphabet, formally adopted at the Congress of Monastir in 1908, and its vocabulary shows layers of Latin, Slavic, Turkish and Greek borrowing that reflect the region's history. A substantial Albanian-speaking community has also grown up in the UK since the 1990s.
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