• 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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  • Arvanites (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    Arvanitika: Die albanischen Sprachreste in Griechenland ["Arvanitic: The Albanian language relics in Greece"]. Wiesbaden. Schukalla, Karl-Josef (1993):...
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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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    provinciality, the extreme narrowness of rural life, that allowed Arvanitic language and local historic memories to survive so effectively to the very...
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    Italy and Arvanitika, Arvanitic in Southern Greece. Greek is the largest minority language of Albania and first largest foreign language. Because the number...
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    Mykines, Greece (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    "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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  • Kyllini, Elis (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    Kalavryta and later Glarentza. The town remained largely Arvanitic-speaking until a mixture of language attrition and assimilation from Greece.[citation needed]...
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  • List of former toponyms in Attica Prefecture (category Articles with Greek-language sources (el))
    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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  • alfabeti shqip) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters: Note: The vowels are shown in bold. The letters...
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  • Metatypy (category Language contact)
    /mɪˈtætɪpi/ is a type of morphosyntactic and semantic language change brought about by language contact involving multilingual speakers. The term was...
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  • linguistic names. Language portal Constructed language and List of constructed languages Language (for information about language in general) Language observatory...
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  • Origin of the Albanians (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    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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  • Varieties of Modern Greek (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    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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  • Monastiraki, Argolis (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    land, creating Priftiani ("Priest's Village"). The name is of Arvanitic origin, the language of the people who were among those who comprised its first residents...
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  • Noble families Diaspora Language Gheg Arbanasi (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa...
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    Culture of Albania (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Albania National symbols of Albania Albanization Albanian language Illyrian language Messapian language Coffee culture Bread and salt Albanophilia Lloshi 1999...
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    Demographics of Greece (category CS1 uses Greek-language script (el))
    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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    Lazaros Kountouriotis (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    permanent colony. The Koundouriotis family used extensively their native Arvanitic dialect of Hydra. After the family moved to Hydra, they adopted the surname...
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    array of non-Greek languages. Slavic languages are the most prevalent minority languages in the region, while Aromanian, Arvanitic, Megleno-Romanian,...
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  • (periphrastic) tenses (I’m working; I was bitten). Other functions vary from language to language. For example, although in its basic meanings, to be is a stative...
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    Gla (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
    (Greek: Παλαιόκαστρο "ancient fortress"). The name Gla comes from the Arvanitic goulas (γουλάς‎), ultimately borrowed from Turkish kulle 'tower'. There...
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    Chameria (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    their idiom Arvanitic, just as all other Arvanites of Greece; yet, when conversing in their own idiom, they call it "Shqip"." Tsitsipis. Language change and...
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    Geographical name changes in Greece (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    the 5,069 Greek villages, 1,500 were considered as "speaking a barbaric language". During the Balkan Wars, Greece doubled its territory and population,...
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  • Albanian name (category Articles containing Albanian-language text)
    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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    Cham Albanian dialect (category Language articles citing Ethnologue 25)
    their idiom Arvanitic, just as all other Arvanites of Greece; yet, when conversing in their own idiom, they call it "Shqip"." Tsitsipis. Language change and...
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  • Surnames by country (category Articles with Finnish-language sources (fi))
    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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  • Livanates (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    Albanian settlement. The Arvanitic dialect spoken in Livanates has some unique features that differentiate it from the other Arvanitic dialects. Livanates...
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    Albanians in Greece (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    assimilated into mainstream Greek culture, and although they retain their Arvanitic dialect and cultural similarities with Albanians, they refuse national...
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  • Irreligion in Albania (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    works advocating against the practice of religion itself in the Albanian language. This was followed by Sëmundja Fetare ("The Disease of Religion"), another...
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  • Noble families Diaspora Language Gheg Arbanasi (Dalmatia) Upper Reka dialect Istrian Albanian Tosk Lab Cham Arvanitika Arvanitic Arbëresh Tradition Besa...
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