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| Arvanitika | |
|---|---|
| αρbε̰ρίσ̈τ arbërisht | |
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| Pronunciation | [aɾbəˈɾiʃt] |
| Native to | Greece |
| Region | Attica, Boeotia, South Euboea, Saronic Islands; Western Thrace; Peloponnese; some villages in NW of Greece; N of island of Andros; more than 500 villages in total[1] |
| Ethnicity | 150,000 Arvanites (2000)[2] |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2007)[3] (may be republished older data) |
| Dialects |
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| Greek (Arvanitic alphabet) Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aat |
| Glottolog | arva1236 |
| ELP | Arvanitika |
| Linguasphere | 55-AAA-ae |
 Distribution of Albanian language dialects. | |
 Arvanitika is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Arvanitika (/ˌɑːrvəˈnɪtɪkə/;[4] Arvanitika: αρbε̰ρίσ̈τ, romanized: arbërisht; Greek: αρβανίτικα, romanized: arvanítika), also known as Arvanitic, is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population group in Greece. Arvanitika was brought to southern Greece during the late Middle Ages by Albanian settlers who moved south from their homeland in present-day Albania in several waves. The dialect preserves elements of medieval Albanian, while also being significantly influenced by the Greek language.[5][6] Arvanitika is today endangered, as its speakers have been shifting to the use of Greek and most younger members of the community no longer speak it.[7]
- ^ Skutsch, Carl (2005). Encyclopedia of the world's minorities. Routledge. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-57958-468-9. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ^ Arvanitika at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ Arvanitika at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Arvanitika". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Μπαλτσιώτης, Λάμπρος (2007). Ταυτότητες και Ετερότητες. Γλωσσική ετερότητα στην Ελλάδα (PDF). Αθήνα: ΥΠΕΠΘ - Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών. pp. 21–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ Dorian, Nancy C., ed. (2001) [1989]. Investigating Obsolescence. Studies in Language Contraction and Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 199-200. ISBN 978-0-521-43757-8.
- ^ Babiniotis, Lexicon of the Greek Language
