Alternate Names: Arberichte, Arvanitic, Arvanitika
Dialects: Northwestern Arvanitika, South Central Arvanitika, Thracean Arvanitika. Partially intelligible with Albanian Tosk ,. Dialects perceived as mutually unintelligible. A member of macrolanguage Albanian ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 50,000 (Salminen 2007). Ethnic population: 150,000.
Language Use: Youth migrate to Athens and assimilate as Greeks. Some cultural revival since the 1980s. Rapid language shift so regular use is probably confined to a much smaller number of people (Salminen 2007). Older adults; few if any children learn the language.
Language Development: Grammar. NT: 1827.
Writing System: Greek
Nation of Origin: Greece
Other Comments: The language is heavily influenced by Greek ,. Christian.