[1] The former commune of Lekas in Western Korçë District consists of mainly speakers of Purisht.
[2] It is overall spoken in the thirteen villages of the ethnographic region of Opar in southeastern Albania,[2] which includes parts of the Lekas and Moglica communes.
Purisht is spoken by those who have migrated out of its home region into the Albanian cities of Korçë, Tirana and Durrës, as well as by migrants outside of Albania's borders, primarily in Greece.
[3] Romance elements compose nearly 16% of the registered lexical items of Purisht, with almost all of them being of Aromanian origin.
[4] This is a result of intensive cultural contact between Opar Albanians and Aromanians.