officials and employers. According to the United States' Country Report on Human Rights 2012 for Macedonia, "certain ministries declined to share information about ethnic makeup of employees". The same report also added: As of 2019, the Albanian language is a co-official language in the country. Religion The main religion among Albanians in North Macedonia is Islam, though there are some who are Roman Catholic, with the most prominent member Agnes (Anjeza) Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa. There are also Orthodox Christian Albanian villages located in Upper Reka, as well as historic communities in Ohrid, Malesia, Kruševo, Kumanovo (in particular the nearby abandoned village of Dumanovce) as well as Bitola city and certain surrounding villages (Trnovo, Nižepole and Magarevo). These communities largely assimilated into the Slavic corpus. Culture The spoken dialects of Albanian are Gheg, by majority, and Tosk in parts of the south. Education in Albanian is provided in all levels, including university levels, such as State University of Tetovo, South East European University, also in Tetovo. Pjetër Bogdani (ca. 1630 - 1689), known in Italian as Pietro Bogdano, is the most original writer of early literature in Albania. He is author of the Cuneus Prophetarum (The Band of the Prophets), 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in Albania. Born in Gur i Hasit, Has, near Kukës district, Albania about 1630, Bogdani was educated in the traditions of the Catholic Church to which he devoted all his energy. His uncle Andrea or Ndre Bogdani (ca. 1600–1683) was Archbishop of Skopje and author of a Latin-Albanian grammar, now lost. Notable people See also Demographics of North Macedonia Albanians Albania–North Macedonia relations Republic of Ilirida References Sources Notes Further reading Ethnic groups in North Macedonia Politics of North Macedonia Members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization Muslim communities in Europe