Albanian, Arvanitika
A language of Greece
| Population | 50,000. Ethnic population: 150,000. |
| Region | Attica (Attiki), Boeotia (Viotia), south Euboea (Evia), and Salamis island (Salamina); Thrace; Peloponiso Peninsula, Arkadia; Athens; northwest Peloponnese and other areas in the Peloponnese; Andros north. Mainly rural. 300 villages. |
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Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| Alternate names | Arberichte, Arvanitic, Arvanitika |
| Dialects | Thracean Arvanitika, Northwestern Arvanitika, South Central Arvanitika. Partially intelligible with Albanian Tosk [als]. Dialects perceived as mutually unintelligible. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Albanian, Tosk A member of macrolanguage Albanian [sqi] (Albania). |
| Language use | Young people migrating to Athens and assimilating as Greeks. Some cultural revival since the 1980s. Older adults. |
| Language development | Grammar. NT: 1827. |
| Writing system | Greek script. |
| Comments | Speakers are called ‘Arvanites’. The language is heavily influenced by Greek. Christian. |
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