Arbanasi dialect
Gheg Albanian dialect of Croatia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Arbanasi dialect (natively: Arbëneshë) is a dialect of Gheg Albanian that is spoken in long-standing diaspora communities of Albanians in Croatia.[1] Its speakers originated from the region of Kraja (now in modern Montenegro), and moved to Croatia in the early 18th century.[1]
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Arbanasi | |
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Arbënishtja | |
Region | Croatia |
Native speakers | 500 (2002) |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | arba1240 |
Linguasphere | 55-AAA-ab |
IETF | aln-HR |
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It is notable for a number of divergent developments as well as preservations of certain archaic features of Medieval Gheg Albanian. Slavic Croatian[dubious – discuss] influences are present, as are Romance influences from Italian and Venetian.
The dialect may also be called the "Dalmatian dialect" of Albanian in some older publications.