Arbanasi dialect

Arbanasi
Arbanasi
Arbënishtja
Region	Croatia
Native speakers	500 (2002)
Language family	Indo-European Albanian Gheg Northern Northwestern Arbanasi; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Albanian ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	arba1240
Linguasphere	55-AAA-ab
IETF	aln-HR
	A map showing Gheg speakers in green

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]

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.

^ ^a ^b Klein, Jared; Brian, Joseph; Fritz, Matthias (2018). Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1801–1802. ISBN 9783110542431.

[KlBrFr18011802-1] Klein, Jared; Brian, Joseph; Fritz, Matthias (2018). Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1801–1802. ISBN 9783110542431.

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