| Arbanasi | |
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| Arbënishtja | |
| Region | Croatia |
Native speakers | 500 (2002) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | arba1240 |
| Linguasphere | 55-AAA-ab |
| IETF | aln-HR |
 A map showing Gheg speakers in green | |
 Arbanasi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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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]
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.