Key facts
- Kosovo
- 9,140 (2024)
- Serbia
- 7,700 (2022)
- Albania
- Unknown
- Montenegro
- 280 (2023)
- Croatia
- 246 (2021)
- North macedonia
- 148 (2021)
- Bosnia and herzegovina
- 24 (2013)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Languages spoken
- Torlakian
- Country
- Kosovo
- Image
- Veshje tradicionale.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gorani people
- topic's main category
- Category:Gorani people
- different from
- Gorani
- native label
- Goranët
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gorani ([ɡɔ̌rani], Cyrillic: Горани) or Goranci ([ɡɔrǎːntsi], Cyrillic: Горанци), are a Slavic ethnic group inhabiting the Gora region, the triangle between Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia. They number an estimated 20,000 people and speak a transitional South Slavic dialect called Goranski. The vast majority of the Gorani people adhere to Sunni Islam.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gorani people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.