on the Gheg dialect, in line with Tito's efforts to define nations through language. This was part of a push for union with Albania, but after the 1948 split between Stalin and Tito, the idea was abandoned.

With the warming of relations between Albania and Yugoslavia starting in the late 1960s, the Kosovo Albanians--the largest ethnic group in Kosovo--adopted the same standard in a process that began in 1968 and culminated