Vaccarizzo Albanian

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Vaccarizzo Albanian
Native toItaly
RegionCalabria (Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese)
Native speakers
(undated figure of c. 3,000[citation needed])
Indo-European
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologcala1254
Linguasphere55-AAA-ahd
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Vaccarizzo Albanian, or Calabria Arbëresh,

Standard Albanian
is based.

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,

Gheg elements.[3]

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

doubly articulated consonants; however, unlike in Balkan Tosk dialects, the final unstressed schwa
rarely appears in Vaccarizzo.

Sources

  1. ^ Lingua Sphere Register (PDF) (2 ed.). p. 448. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  2. . Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  3. ^ Çabej, Eqrem (1972). Studime Filologjike. Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH. p. 29. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  4. . Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  5. . Retrieved 30 March 2011.