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ArvanitikaAlbanianLanguage
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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InstancesAlbanianLanguageAn AlbanianLanguage is any of four closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Albania and nearby countries.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 entit�The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 langage humainThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 IndoEuropeanLanguageThere are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 langageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 expression linguistiqueThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 langage naturelThe subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
 physiqueAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 ToskGroupAlbanianLanguageOf the four AlbanianLanguage, three are classified as a ToskGroupAlbanianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
Belongs to Class IndoEuropeanLanguage


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