Arbëresh
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Albanian dialect spoken in Italy
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ˌaɾbəˈɾiʃt ]
- Native to
- Italy
- Region
- Abruzzo , Apulia , Basilicata , Calabria , Campania , Molise , Sicily
- Ethnicity
- Arbëreshë
- Native speakers
- 70,000-100,000
- Language family
- Indo-European Albanoid Albanian Tosk Southern Arbëresh
- Dialects
- Apulian Albanian Calabrian Albanian Campo Marino Albanian Central Mountain Albanian Sicilian Albanian
- Writing system
- Latin
- Iso 639 3
- aae
- Glottolog
- arbe1236
- Elp
- Arbëreshë
- Linguasphere
- 55-AAA-ah
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- E Mbsuame E Chraesterae.jpg
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 100000
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Arbëresh (gluha/gjuha/gjufa Arbëreshe; also known as Arbërisht, Italian: Arberesco, Lingua Albanese d'Italia, Italo-albanese) comprises the Albanian linguistic varieties spoken by the Arbëreshë people of Italy, brought there by several migratory waves of Albanians from Albania and Greece since the Late Middle Ages. Arbëresh varieties are derived from the old Tosk Albanian varieties spoken in the south-western Balkans, and throughout the centuries they have developed in Italy in contact with the neighboring Italo-Romance-speaking communities. Other Tosk Albanian varieties from the Late Middle Ages referred to as Arvanitika (endonym: arbërisht) are spoken in Greece by the Arvanites. E Mbësuame e Krështerë (1592) by Luca Matranga from Piana degli Albanesi is the earliest known Old Tosk text, a translation of a catechism book from Latin.