The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: AAT
ISO 639-2: ine
| Population | 50,000 (Newmark) to 140,000 possible speakers (1977 Trudgill and Tzavaras). |
| Region | Attica (Attiki), Bocotia (Viotia), southern Euboea (Evia), and the island of Salamis (Salamina); Epyrus region and Athens. Mainly rural. |
| Alternate names | ARVANITIKA, ARVANITIC, ARBERICHTE |
| Dialects | THRACEAN ARVANITIKA, NORTHWESTERN ARVANITIKA, SOUTH CENTRAL ARVANITIKA. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Albanian, Tosk. |
| Comments | Arvanitika is partially intelligible to speakers of Tosk. Dialects are perceived as unintelligible to speakers of other dialects. Bilingualism in Greek. Speakers are older people. Young people are migrating to Athens and assimilating as Greeks. Some cultural revival since the 1980s. Speakers are called 'Arvanites'. The language is heavily influenced by Greek. Greek or Roman script. Christian. NT 1827. |
