Recording AD 213
Dialect
Tosk Albanian, northern Tosk subdialect,
eastern variant, from southeastern Bulgaria.
The inhabitants of Mandrica are said to
stem from the region of Vithkuq near Korça,
and preserve an archaic, and now moribund
Tosk dialect.
Location
Bulgaria: Province of Haskovo,
Municipality of Ivaylovgrad, village
of Mandrica (Mandritsa).
Coordinates
41°23' N, 26°08' E
Speaker
Sulltana Aleksandrova.
Subject
Speaking Albanian but not writing it.
Recorded
in Mandrica, December 2016 by Marin
Mema, for the documentary film ‘Gjurmë
shqiptare – Skënderbeu i shqiptarëve të
Mandricës,’ broadcast on Top Channel TV.
Duration
0:34