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) |
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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 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.