Vaccarizzo Albanian
Vaccarizzo Albanian | |
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Native to | Italy |
Region | Calabria (Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese) |
Native speakers | (undated figure of c. 3,000[citation needed]) |
Indo-European
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | cala1254 |
Linguasphere | 55-AAA-ahd |
Vaccarizzo Albanian, or Calabria Arbëresh,
Classification
Vaccarizzo Albanian is a dialect of Arbëresh, which is a dialect of Tosk, one of the two major dialects of the Albanian language. Within Arbëresh along with the subdialects of Macchia,
Features
The communes of Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese were founded by Albanian refugees after the conquest of Albania by the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent mass migration of Albanians to Italy. As all Arbëresh dialects, Vaccarizzo Albanian exhibits many medieval elements of the Albanian language. However, unlike other Arbëresh dialects, which under southern Italian dialectal influence have undergone a process of partial or total fricativization resulting in the change of the intervocalic voiced velar plosive ([ɡ]) to a voiced velar fricative ([ɣ]), Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained the initial [ɡ].[4]
Another feature of the Vaccarizzo dialect is the
Sources
- ^ Lingua Sphere Register (PDF) (2 ed.). p. 448. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ISBN 978-3-87828-119-1. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ Çabej, Eqrem (1972). Studime Filologjike. Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH. p. 29. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-83-85262-08-4. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-83-901394-8-7. Retrieved 30 March 2011.