It is part of the Torlakian dialect group,[1] which is transitional between Eastern and Western South Slavic languages.

[2][3][4][5] Spoken across the Gora region in 19 villages in Kosovo, 11 in Albania, and 2 in North Macedonia.

[10] On the other hand, former Yugoslav linguists Vidoeski, Brozović and Ivić identify the Slavic dialect of the Gora region as Macedonian.

[11] According to some sources, in 2003, the Kosovo government acquired Macedonian language and grammar books to be taught in Gorani schools.

With standard Macedonian and some Bulgarian dialects it shares the reflexes of */ĭ, ŭ/ as /e, o/ in words like den ('day') and son ('dream').

[13] Morphology The dialect makes a distinction between three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, instrumental) and two numbers (singular and plural).

The grammatical gender of a noun affects the morphology of other parts of speech (adjectives, pronouns, and verbs) attached to it.

Nouns are declined into seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, and instrumental.