| (documentation ArvanitikaAlbanianLanguage EnglishLanguage "The ArvanitikaAlbanianLanguage is a ToskGroupAlbanianLanguage of Greece. 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. 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.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
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