Arbanasi people

Arbanasi
Arbëneshë
Total population
ca. 4,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Zadar County
Languages
Arbanasi, Croatian
Religion
Roman Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Related ethnic groups
Other Albanians, Croats
Woman from Arbanasi, Zadar, 1778
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For other uses, see Arbanasi (disambiguation).
"Arbneshë" redirects here. For other uses, see Arbëreshë (disambiguation).

Arbanasi (Arbanasi: Arbëneshë)[2] is an ethnic community in and around the city of Zadar in the northern Dalmatia region of Croatia, who are of Albanian ethnic origin. They are traditional speakers of the Arbanasi dialect of Gheg Albanian.[3] Their name is an obsolete way to say Albanians in Croatian and is the toponymy of the first Arbanasi settlement in the region, which today is a suburb of Zadar.[4] In Albanian literature, they are known as "Albanians of Zadar" (Arbëreshët e Zarës).

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  2. ^ Camaj, Martin (1984). Leonard Fox (ed.). Albanian Grammar: With Exercises, Chrestomathy and Glossaries. Translated by Leonard Fox. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. p. xi. ISBN 978-3447024679.
  3. ^ Friedman, Victor A. (1997). "One Grammar, Three Lexicons: Ideological Overtones and Underpinnings in the Balkan Sprachbund" (PDF). In Kora Singer; Randall Eggert; Gregory Anderson (eds.). CLS 33: Papers from the panels on linguistic ideologies in contact, universal grammar, parameters and typology, the perception of speech and other acoustic signals. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. pp. 23–44. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-17.
  4. ^ Mijo Čurković (1922). Povijest Arbanasa kod Zadra. E. Vitaliani.