CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER II. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE EVALUATION -- 1. Punya Sloka Ray, Language standardization (1963) -- 2. Einar Haugen, 'linguistics and language planning' (1966b) -- 3. Einar Haugen, Language conflict and language planning: the case of modern Norwegian (1966a), and 'Dialect, language, nation' (1966c) -- 4. Valter Tauli, Introduction to a theory of language planning (1968) -- 5. Jiri V. Neustupný, 'Some general aspects of "language" problems and "language" policy in developing societies' (1968) -- 6. Summary of language-evaluation criteria -- CHAPTER III. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ALBANIA AND OF ALBANIAN -- 1. Description and brief historical sketch of Albania -- 2. Functional evolution of Albanian -- CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTION OF ALBANIAN DIALECTS AND OF PREWAR ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE LANGUAGE PROBLEMS -- 1. Albanian dialects -- 2. Efforts before 1944 to solve language problems caused by dialect differences -- CHAPTER V. DIALECT BASE OF STANDARD ALBANIAN AND OFFICIAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DIALECTS -- 1. Dialectal foundation of standard Albanian -- 2. Official attitude towards spoken dialects -- Appendix: Roster of major Communist leaders -- CHAPTER VI. STANDARD PHONOLOGY -- 1. Vowels and diphthongs -- 1.1. Albanian diasystem (vowels) -- 1.2. Albanian diasystem (diphthongs) -- 2. Albanian consonants -- 2.1. Neutralization -- 2.2. r/rr -- 2.3. nj/j -- 3. e/ë -- 4. Selection and evaluation -- CHAPTER VII. STANDARD GRAMMAR -- 1. Declension -- 2. Conjugation -- 3. Pronouns -- 4. Summary -- CHAPTER VIII. LEXICOLOGY -- CHAPTER IX. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 1. General linguistic scholarship -- 2. Studies on Albanian and Albania -- INDEX.