[2] Later in 1903, Heinrich Gelzer, following a visit to both Drenkowa and neighbouring Boboshticë, described the local population as a Bulgarian island in Albanian sea, remained from the new nomad migration of Slavic population after Albanian mass emigration from 14th and 15th centuries.

[7][8] A visit to the village in 2005 by linguists from Sofia University found just two elderly Bulgarian speakers remaining.

[9] During the late 2000s linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli seeking to corroborate villages cited in past literature as being Slavic speaking carried out fieldwork.

[10] Drenovë was noted as having a mixed population of Orthodox Albanians and Aromanians with the last elderly speaker of the local Slavic dialect passing away in the 2000s.

[10] Some families from the Orthodox village of Cerja in Pustec Municipality, speaking their local Slavic dialect have settled in Drenovë.