80% > of albanians have serbian origin, others Albanians have Asian origins. The area in which lived Albanian "natives" ("Asian" Albanians who migrated to the Balkans) is southern Albania, south of the river Shkumbin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShkumbinBut on the whole territory of Albania can be found the remains of Orthodox churches, some Greek (Byzantine) but mostly Serbian.
"Albanian language has two dialects: Gheg dialect, north of the Shkumbin, and the dialect of Tosk south of the river. Tosk dialect is the official language of Albania. In Kosovo and Metohija is up to in 1972., As a literary Albanian Gheg dialect used. It printed books, newspapers, taught officially in school. That year was a meeting in Pristina Albanian linguists from Albania and Kosovo, where it was agreed that the Albanian literary language unifies. Since then, Kosovo and Metohija, the official and literary language, a dialect of Tosk as in Albania."
Actually, these are two different languages and two different people they barely understood among themselves! Northern - Ghеgs (Albanianaised Serbs, mostly) and the South - Tosks (native Albanians, mostly). Ghegs (Malisors) themselves have never called Albanians than Shqiptars (highlanders). Gheg language is full of Serbian, Italian, Greek, Roman and Turkish words. The letter was Cyrillic!
Albanian language is first mentioned in historical documents on July 14, 1285 in Dubrovnik. The letters of the Albanian language and writing standards were adopted in 1908. Was. Selected the Latin letters rather than the old Turkish language that was another alternative. This was done by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Vatican, which aimed to create the Albanian people and the nation more than it is, and then create a state of Albania in order to weaken Serbia by territorial, ethnic and strategic (preventing or reduce her to the Adriatic Sea ).
Albanians were Orthodox Christians, and when they reached the Turks converted to Islam, under Vatican and the Austro-Hungarian influence lot of them have become Catholics, and that trend continues today, especially among Kosovo Albanians.
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