• romanized: arbërisht; Greek: αρβανίτικα, romanized: arvanítika), also known as Arvanitic, is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population...
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  • hand, applies the term Arvanites only to the populations of the compact Arvanitic settlement areas in southern Greece, in keeping with the self-identification...
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  • The Albanian alphabet (Albanian: alfabeti shqip) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters: Note:...
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    "Learning Arvanitic in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Greece: Linguistic Maintenance and Cultural Idiosyncrasies in Greece’s Arvanitic Speaking Communities...
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  • Ligatures". Nick Nicholas, "Yot" Archived 2012-08-05 at archive.today "Arvanitic language". Retrieved 8 October 2022. Nicholas, Nick (2005-04-09). "Ligatures"...
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  • Prefecture of Greece have both Arvanitic and Greek forms. Some of the forms are identifiably of Greek origin, others of Arvanitic, yet others of Turkish or...
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  • westward toward Kalavryta and later Glarentza. The town remained largely Arvanitic-speaking until a mixture of language attrition and assimilation from Greece...
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    the most prevalent minority languages in the region, while Aromanian, Arvanitic, Megleno-Romanian, Turkish, and Romani are also spoken. Judaeo-Spanish...
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    the more openly problematic issue of Slav speakers in northern Greece, Arvanitic speakers in central Greece lack any signs of an assertive ethnicity. I...
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    of Tosk, include Lab, Cham, Arbëresh spoken in Italy and Arvanitika, Arvanitic in Southern Greece. Greek is the largest minority language of Albania...
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    name Notes Παιανεύς / Paianeus (384 BC) Liopesi Paiania Old name was Arvanitic. Liopesi: 'Place of cows' or 'of the cow'. From the Albanian word lopë...
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    Euboea and the island of Andros, there were nearly 225,000 Albanian/ Arvanitic speakers Martin, Frederick (1924). The statesman's year-book statistical...
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  • shortened form "çavar" was pronounced "tzanavar" or "tzavar" giving birth to Arvanitic family names like "Tzanavaras" and/or "Tzavaras". This is a link between...
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  • (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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  • Atatürk made them compulsory). Arvanitic surnames also exist; an example is Tzanavaras or Tzavaras, from the Arvanitic word çanavar or çavar meaning "brave"...
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    of the south Balkans had been replaced during the Migration Period by Arvanitic, Aromanian, Slavic and Turkic peoples, a theory which he advocated with...
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    events in Moschopolis, unruly Arnauts also attacked the smaller Vlach and Arvanitic communities round about. The Vlach inhabitants of Llengë, Niçë, Grabovë...
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  • (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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  • (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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  • (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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  • (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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  • Indo-European Armenian, Eastern Armenian Armenian, Western Armenian Arvanitika or Arvanitic Albanian Ashkun Indo-Iranian Assamese Indo-Iranian Assyrian Neo-Aramaic...
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    (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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    has been a revival in folklore, in particular in the performance of "Arvanitic wedding". Cham Albanians Cham issue Albanian nationalism Elsie, Robert...
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  • initiated a 'counterdiscourse' (Gefou-Madianou 1999: 122) aiming at giving Arvanitic communities of southern Greece a positive role in Greek history. This...
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    the greatest part of Albanian-speaking Greeks that formed in 1898 the "Arvanitic Association" (Greek: "Αρβανίτικος Σύνδεσμος"), one of two associations...
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  • (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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  • of a formerly contiguous Greek dialect area from the time before the Arvanitic settlement. These include the old local dialect of Athens itself ("Old...
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    (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa Kanun Oda Sworn virgins Costumes Religion and...
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    (Greek: Παλαιόκαστρο "ancient fortress"). The name Gla comes from the Arvanitic goulas (γουλάς‎), ultimately borrowed from Turkish kulle 'tower'. There...
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